What is "numb" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does numb mean in English? Meaning of numb definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "numb" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "numb": make numb or insensitive

Verb

  • Meaning: make numb or insensitive
  • Example: The shock numbed her senses
  • Synonyms: benumb blunt dull numb
  • Hypernyms: desensitise desensitize
  • Meaning of "numb": lacking sensation

    Adjective

  • Meaning: lacking sensation
  • Example: my foot is asleep numb with cold
  • Synonyms: asleep benumbed numb
  • Similar: insensible
  • Meaning of "numb": (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive

    Adjective

  • Meaning: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
  • Example: passersby were dead to our plea for help numb to the cries for mercy
  • Synonyms: dead numb
  • Similar: insensitive
  • Meaning of "numb": so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified

    Adjective

  • Meaning: so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified
  • Example: too numb with fear to move
  • Synonyms: numb
  • Similar: afraid
  • Adjective: Without the power of sensation and motion or feeling; insensible.Not able to react, surprised, shocked.Causing numbness. Shakespeare All thin and naked to the numb cold night.Shakespeare All thin and naked to the numb cold night.
  • Synonyms:

    indifferent, dazed, stupefied, frozen, callous, benumbed, paralyzed, detached, aloof, apathetic, asleep, casual, comatose, dead, disinterested, insensate, insensible, lethargic, listless, phlegmatic, remote, senseless, torpid, unconcerned, unconscious, unfeeling, uninterested, incurious, insentient, stuporous, immobilized, numbed, anesthetized, uncurious, paralyze, stupefy, desensitize, dull, immobilize, benumb, blunt, frost, freeze, stun, chill, anesthetize, obtund,

    Antonyms:

    compassionate, lively, responsive, sympathetic, sensitive, heat, enliven,

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    numb in English: numb
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