What is "numbing"

Usage examples of "numbing".

The fist of death came through to catch me on the thigh, numbing my leg.

I tried to hold my breath, but the stuff tingled on my skin, numbing it.

The numbing sap coated the whole surface, and she scooped it away as she examined herself.

Naked from the waist up, she spread handfuls of the numbing sap on her body, like a salve, from head to waist.

He struck his shoulder a numbing blow on the chimney piece, bounced off, and managed somehow to keep his feet, stumbling like a drunkard.

The first rock hit me on the flat of my left shoulder, numbing my arm.

The rest walked, and so did Rosvita and her companions, trudging along the dusty road at a numbing pace, their way lit by the torches the soldiers carried, until at dawn the sergeant had pity on Rosvita and the coughing Ruoda and allowed them to sit in the back of the cart.

A sudden, numbing blow from her elbow had struck some nerve center in his neck.

A hand stretched out toward him, insubstantial as a skeletal leaf, and the chill increased, numbing his whole body.

Chill fingers caressed her, each drifting caress numbing her blood until she cowered, shivering uncontrollably in the wet snowdrifts.

He tried to cling on, but the burn of the ice was numbing his bleeding hands.

The cactus juice was so powerful it could be used only once a day, lest the numbing effect spread to the heart and lungs.

The numbing cold of the winter soaked through the stones along with the blackness of its night.

Weed dug his fingers into his eyes, more savagely than need be, for sleep was numbing his senses.

After the second day on the Road, it had experienced shadowed dreams of voices at a distance, a numbing crack of thunder, and then a lightning-jagged pain in its legs pinning it flat in the abstraction of its sleep.