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