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Meanings of benumb in English
Usage of benumb in English
1
A wave of cold fear seemed to benumb his tongue and brain.
2
But despondency did not benumb Mackenzie into apathy, as it has weaker men.
3
There are certain brains that even our educational system cannot benumb.
4
Yet who shall benumb the understanding, chain up the fancy, and freeze sensation?
5
Slavery seems to benumb all the faculties except the passions.
6
They had power to benumb every decent feeling in me.
7
The effect of this announcement was to benumb his faculties.
8
Furthermore, stimulants temporarily benumb and paralyze the inhibitory nervous system.
9
Then shall the breeding mares, that benumb'd were, Like royal palfreys ride triumphant there.
10
The peculiar motion involved in turning a wheel has a wonderful tendency to benumb the mind.
11
And for the present I would not benumb
12
It was cold, but it did not benumb.
13
A miserable sullenness seemed to benumb my faculties.
14
He felt that another hour aloft would so benumb his senses that a crash would be inevitable.
15
There was not a department which the chill of this poor king's virtue did not somewhat benumb.
16
The small-talk, the perpetual demand on her attention, the constant interruptions, seemed to benumb what faculties she had.
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Benumb through the time