Numb , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Numbed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Numbing (?).]
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.
Numb (?), a. [OE.
nume, nome, prop., seized, taken, p. p. of
nimen to take, AS. niman, p. p. numen. √7. See Nimble, Nomad, and cf. Benumb.]
1. Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power
of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold. "A stony image, cold and numb." Shak.
2. Producing numbness;
benumbing; as, the numb, cold night. [Obs.] Shak.
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