Benumbed

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Benumb \Be*numb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Benumbed}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Benumbing}.] [OE. binomen, p. p. of binimen to take away,
     AS. beniman; pref. be + niman to take. See {Numb}, a., and
     cf. {Benim}.]
     To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to
     stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.


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           The creeping death benumbed her senses first. --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Benumbed \Be*numbed"\, a.
     Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body
     and mind. -- {Be*numbed"ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  benumbed
       adj 1: lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"
              [syn: {asleep(p)}, {numb}]
       2: having lost or been caused to lose interest because of
          overexposure; "the mind of the audience is becoming
          dulled"; "the benumbed intellectual faculties can no
          longer respond" [syn: {dulled}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "benumbed":
     Laodicean, Olympian, aloof, anesthetized, apathetic, asleep, blah,
     blase, bored, callous, comatose, dead, deadened, debilitated,
     desensitized, detached, disinterested, dopey, dormant, droopy,
     drugged, dull, enervated, exanimate, heartless, heavy,
     hebetudinous, hopeless, impassible, imperceptive, impercipient,
     in a stupor, inanimate, indifferent, inert, insensate, insensible,
     insensitive, insentient, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languid,
     languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lumpish,
     moribund, nonchalant, numb, numbed, obdurate, obtuse, passive,
     phlegmatic, pluckless, pooped, resigned, sated, senseless, slack,
     sleepy, slow, sluggish, somnolent, soporific, spiritless,
     spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, stoic, stultified, stupefied,
     supine, thick-skinned, thick-witted, torpid, uncaring, unconcerned,
     unfeeling, unfelt, uninterested, unperceptive, vegetable,
     vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, world-weary