Benumbing

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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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