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Numbed

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.

For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand.
--Dryden.

Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
--Tennyson.

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numbed

vb. (en-past of: numb)

Usage examples of "numbed".

Beneath that cone of neat grey felt, behind the dreary, tallowed pigment of his face, which had that thickened, stunned, and deadened look one often sees upon the faces of old bruisers, as if the violent and furious assault of stone and steel, the million harsh metallic clangours, the brutal stupefaction of the streets, at length had dried the flesh and thickened the skin, and blunted, numbed and calloused the aching tumult of the tortured and tormented senses--there still flowed blood as red and wet as any which ever swarmed into the earth below the laurel bush.

His horse plunged in panic and shied back, and he fought it, finding life in the numbed arm, his only thought to get back to cover before Morgaine left it for his sake and tried to cover him.

I did not know the precise nature of his handicap, but suspected it was similar to paraplegia: an injury of the spinal nerve that numbed and incapacitated the lower extremities.

She hurtled along the rock-studded canyon floor, stumbling, getting up and running onward, running long after her breath had given out, after her body had become numbed to its many unnamed pains and the constant running.

Her med nanos had numbed the right side of her face to the exclusion of the injuries her pain-wracked body told her existed everywhere else.

Her eyelid and her numbed limbs grew heavy and warmth spread through her from the inside out.

He touched the patch of tough, numbed white that had once been one of the most sensitive spots on his body.

He shuffled to the head of the procession as fast as his numbed muscles would permit.

Honey despised me, Josh seemed numbed with shock, and Piper was so lost in her own pain she scarcely noticed me.

The only kindness was that it numbed my feet from the stones in its bed.

He would never have survived his journey into the city, had not his senses been numbed with elfbark first.

Even though he escaped the searing ray, the conducted shock of it numbed him.

The Molt pushing it took three steps forward, numbed by the Mirror, before he noticed the battle going on around him.

Either the sedatives had not quite worn off yet, or the cold had numbed his brain.

As Gavril stood over the blaze he felt his numbed fingers and toes slowly begin to thaw.