Hypertext Webster Gateway: "numbing"

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)

numbing
adj : causing numbness or insensitivity; "the numbing effect of
grief"

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