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benumb

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6 lettersPronunciation /biˈnʌm/Part of speech verbSorted bbemnuStarts with BEnds with B0 clues
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Definitions

  1. make numb or insensitive

Word origin

From be- + numb.

Used in a sentence

  • […] the sayd Phillip […] in the same his pilgrimage was stricken with such colde, that he fell into a palsey, and was benumbed of the right side of his body.
  • ‘My hands are so benumbed with the cold that I can scarcely handle my knife and fork.’
  • I struggled, and trembled, and was so benumb’d with Terror, that I sunk down, not in a Fit, and yet not myself […]

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