numb

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I - verb

make numb or insensitive
- The shock numbed her senses
• Syn:
benumb, blunt, dull
• Hypernyms:
desensitize, desensitise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- The bad news will numb him
- The performance is likely to numb Sue

II - adjective

1. lacking sensation (Freq. 3)
- my foot is asleep
- numb with cold
• Syn:
asleep, benumbed
• Similar to:
insensible
• Derivationally related forms:
numbness
2. (followed by 'to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
unresponsive
- passersby were dead to our plea for help
- numb to the cries for mercy
• Syn:
dead
• Similar to:
insensitive
• Derivationally related forms:
numbness, deadness (for: dead)
3. so frightened as to be unable to move;
stunned or paralyzed with terror;
petrified
- too numb with fear to move
• Similar to:
afraid

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dead(p), numb(p), asleep(p), benumbed, benumb, blunt, dull