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Meaning numb meaning

What does numb mean?
Definitions in simple English

numb Adjective

— If someone is numb, they cannot sense or feel something. My hand was so cold it went numb.

numb

— adjective (= asleep) lacking sensation my foot is asleep numb with cold — verb make numb or insensitive The shock numbed her senses — adjective so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified too numb with fear to move — adjective (= dead) (followed by 'to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive passersby were dead to our plea for help numb to the cries for mercy

Synonyms numb synonyms

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numb English » English

stiff insensitive dull torpid insensible deaden benumbed benumb asleep paralyzed unfeeling deadened dead stupefy numbness dazed blunt stupefied palsied impervious frozen be numb anesthetize anesthetic anaesthetise withered unwitting unsensible unresponsive unnerved unman unconscious tranquilized tire tingly tingling thoughtless take aback stuporous stun stiffness stiff with cold state startle stagger smitten sisal sesame senseless semiconscious

Topics numb topics

What do people use numb to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive

Sense of touch
Person Healthy

Symptom of disease

Conjugation numb conjugation

How do you conjugate numb?

numb · verb

Examples numb examples

How do I use numb in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The swimmers were numb with cold.
My right hand is numb.
My hands were numb with cold.
My left hand is numb.
My fingers are so cold they have gone numb.
My hand is so numb with cold that I can't move my fingers.
My feet are numb.
My hands are numb from the cold.
My arms went numb.
My fingers are so numb with cold that I can't play the piano.
An ice pack will numb the pain.
My fingers are numb.
My toes are getting numb.
My toes are numb.

Movie subtitles

Numb as they come.
You gotta numb the pain, bro.
Really numb?
My senses were numb.
Makes your blood race, your face numb and your spirits soar.
I've been numb for four years, trying to figure what happened to us.
Numb their wounds, soften their pains. Give them strength, O savior.
My leg gets numb. Wait, I'll massage you.
I had the permission to go with him sometimes and to massage his numb leg.
I'm getting numb all over.
At least I'm good and numb while we're hiking.
I'm just numb.
I've walked my 10 feet of private deck until I'm numb.
Finger's getting numb.
It makes your blood race, your face numb and your spirit soar.
Numb their wounds, soften their pains.
My legs are all numb.
It's cold in there. Finger's getting numb.
My legs got numb.
They don't tell you you can get so scared, so numb that even the rough canvas webbing, you can't feel it.
But my arms are numb.
Ever since then, numb, no feelings, like my heart was shot full of Novocain.
And my hands are quite numb.
I'M NUMB, I HAVE NO FEELING.
And then my body got all tingly, and my chest got numb.
Exactly. Numb as they come.
I felt completely numb.
I think my whole left side is beginning to get numb.
Who told me. when we both lay on the ground frozen almost to death. how he did lap me even in his own garments. and gave himself, all thin and naked, to the numb, cold night?
I feel, I feel numb all over.
Going numb.
Because of the cold, I'm starting to feel a little numb.
Just enough to make me numb.
My hands are quite numb.

News and current affairs

Eurobonds would numb the distressed countries' current pain, but, by failing to treat the underlying disease, they - and the eurozone as a whole - would end up far sicker than before.

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