Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Numb"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Numb \Numb\, a. [OE. nume, nome, prop., seized, taken, p. p. of
nimen to take, AS. niman, p. p. numen. [root]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Numb \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
numb
adj 1: lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"
[syn: {asleep(p)}, {benumbed}]
2: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help";
"numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: {dead(p)}, {numb(p)}]
3: so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed
with terror; "petrified with fear"; "she was petrified by
the eerie sound"; "too numb with fear to move" [syn: {petrified}]
v : make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
[syn: {benumb}, {blunt}, {dull}]
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