What is "benumbs"

Usage examples of "benumbs".

While, within, the frost benumbs The still sleepy schoolboy’s thumbs, And in consequence his sums Come to grief.

Such a gigantic tragedy as this stuns the mind and benumbs the imagination.

We, whom the view benumbs, We, quivering upward, each hour Know battle in air and in ground For the breath that goes as it comes, For the choice between sweet and sour, For the smallest grain of our worth: And he who the reckoning sums Finds nought in his hand save Earth.

And their direct gaze benumbs victims with fear, a terror so strong that one so transfixed cannot make any move whatsoever.

When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it, as man charms down the resistance of the lower animals.

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.