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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Numb  \Numb\,  a.  [OE.  nume,  nome,  prop.,  seized,  taken  p.  p.  of 
  nimen  to  take  AS  niman,  p.  p.  numen.  [root]7.  See  {Nimble}, 
  {Nomad},  and  cf  {Benumb}.] 
  1.  Enfeebled  in  or  destitute  of  the  power  of  sensation  and 
  motion;  rendered  torpid;  benumbed;  insensible;  as  the 
  fingers  or  limbs  are  numb  with  cold.  ``A  stony  image,  cold 
  and  numb.''  --Shak. 
 
  2.  Producing  numbness;  benumbing;  as  the  numb,  cold  night. 
  [Obs.]  --Shak. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Numb  \Numb\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Numbed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Numbing}.] 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  numb 
  adj  1:  lacking  sensation;  "my  foot  is  asleep";  "numb  with  cold" 
  [syn:  {asleep(p)},  {benumbed}] 
  2:  (followed  by  `to')  not  showing  human  feeling  or  sensitivity; 
  unresponsive;  "passersby  were  dead  to  our  plea  for  help"; 
  "numb  to  the  cries  for  mercy"  [syn:  {dead(p)},  {numb(p)}] 
  3:  so  frightened  as  to  be  unable  to  move  stunned  or  paralyzed 
  with  terror;  "petrified  with  fear";  "she  was  petrified  by 
  the  eerie  sound";  "too  numb  with  fear  to  move"  [syn:  {petrified}] 
  v  :  make  numb  or  insensitive;  "The  shock  numbed  her  senses" 
  [syn:  {benumb},  {blunt},  {dull}]




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