benumb
benumb is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agent
- air
- amianth
- amianthus
- anaesthesia
- anaesthetic
- anaesthetize
- and
- annihilator
- asbestos
- attic
- aura
- benumbed
- bite
- blunt
- box
- brigade
- burn
- callous
- case
- central
- chatter
- chill
- chloral
- chloroform
- coma
- comatose
- congeal
- congelation
- conglaciation
- cool
- cooling
- creep
- cut
- damp
- dead
- density
- dull
- earth
- ether
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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