numb
numb is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night. [Obs.] Shak.
- 2.To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy. For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. Dryden. Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. Tennyson.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agent
- anaesthesia
- anaesthetic
- anaesthetize
- and
- aura
- benumb
- benumbed
- blunt
- callous
- case
- chloral
- chloroform
- coma
- comatose
- creep
- dead
- dull
- ether
- exhilarating
- formication
- gas
- hard
- hardened
- have
- hemiplegia
- hide
- impalpable
- impercipient
- influence
- insensibility
- insensible
- intangible
- itch
- laughing
- motor
- nitrogen
- nitrous
- numbness
- obtund
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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