Numbing

4 definitions found

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

  Numb \Numb\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Numbed} (n[u^]md); p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Numbing} (n[u^]m"[i^]ng).]
     To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion;
     to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to
     stupefy.
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           For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. --Dryden.
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           Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.       --Tennyson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  desensitizing \desensitizing\ adj.
     making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or
     emotional stimuli. Opposite of {sensitizing}. [Narrower
     terms: {numbing}]
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  numbing
       adj : causing numbness or insensitivity; "the numbing effect of
             grief"

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

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "numbing":
     Siberian, abatement, algid, allayment, alleviating, alleviation,
     alleviative, analgesia, analgesic, anesthesia, anesthetic,
     anesthetizing, anodyne, appeasement, arctic, assuagement,
     assuasive, balmy, balsamic, below zero, benumbing, biting, bitter,
     bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, cathartic, cleansing,
     cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble,
     crisp, cutting, deadening, demulcent, diminishment, diminution,
     dulling, ease, easement, easing, emollient, freezing,
     freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, hibernal, hiemal,
     hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement,
     keen, lenitive, lessening, lulling, mitigating, mitigation,
     mitigative, mollification, narcotic, nipping, nippy, pain-killing,
     palliation, palliative, penetrating, piercing, pinching, purgative,
     raw, reduction, relief, relieving, remedial, remedy, rigorous,
     salving, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, softening,
     soothing, stone-cold, stunning, stupefying, subduement, subduing,
     subzero, supercooled, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry