Benumbed

Word BENUMBED
Character 8
Hyphenation be numbed
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Benumbed"

What do we mean by benumbed?

To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.

To deaden, dull (the mind, faculties, etc.).

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The word "benumbed" in example sentences

Nor are narcotics -- from narkosis, Greek for "benumbed" -- necessarily all about nodding. ❋ Unknown (2010)

King responded to the salute from Obama with a kind of benumbed indifference, although later in the show he expressed oddly unctuous gratitude to fellow TV talker "Dr. Phil" McGraw, who popped into the studio for a folksy bye-bye. ❋ Tom Shales (2010)

She wandered through the house and around the backyard in a benumbed state of shock. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If it doesn't, we wind up like Fitzgerald, lost in a lost city, besotted by booze and benumbed by grief. ❋ Judith Acosta (2011)

I ordered it to be repaired, bought some furniture, and took possession; an incident which would, doubtless, have occasioned some surprise, had not all the senses of the cottagers been benumbed by want and squalid poverty. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For the most part, we are benumbed, befuddled or afraid. ❋ Judith Acosta (2011)

Sturdy, more frost-resistant than bees, they were already on the wing and preying on the benumbed flies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's an unthreatening simulacrum of dark passion in which everything wild and unheimlich about sexual obsession, murder, disfigurement and – my personal favourite – Dostoyevskian self-loathing is benumbed with unremittingly sweet tunes many of which, according to Kit and the Widow's turn at August's Comedy Prom, Lloyd Webber recycled from older, better composers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ann, just graduated from college, heartbroken and benumbed by the classic question about what to do with her life, grapples with a painful depression. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And for a country that was born of faith and the fearlessness of millions of people crawling, paddling and begging their ways here so they could be free to now be a country paralyzed by magical thinking and benumbed with viral fear is heartbreaking. ❋ Judith Acosta (2011)

The Ayatollah Khomeini thumbed his nose at a Vietnam–benumbed U.S. in the 1970s and the Iranians have been picking at us ever since. ❋ George Melloan (2011)

Besides, they were snarling all the time, and his benumbed and drowsy senses no longer took note of changing pitch and intensity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like all who know her, including her benumbed lawyer husband, Kip Victor Garber, he too will learn not to underestimate Fiona. ❋ Dorothy Rabinowitz (2011)

"Yeah," I ranted, "we're fine, except that our taste buds have been benumbed and our intestinal passages are packed to overflow with fried potatoes and road kill, and if we aren't released pretty soon, I can't guarantee the status will remain quo; Foster is on the verge of trying to swim home and I'm toying with that idea myself ..." ❋ Unknown (2010)

When we are so benumbed, we pay no mind to consequences. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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