'Numb' definitions:
Definition of 'numb'
From: WordNet
adjective
Lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold" [syn: asleep(p), benumbed, numb]
adjective
(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)]
adjective
So frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified; "too numb with fear to move"
verb
Definition of 'Numb'
From: GCIDE
- Numb \Numb\ (n[u^]m), 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Numb'
From: GCIDE
- Numb \Numb\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Numbed (n[u^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Numbing (n[u^]m"[i^]ng).] To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy. [1913 Webster]
- For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'numb'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- aloof,
- anesthetize,
- anesthetized,
- apathetic,
- appease,
- asleep,
- assuage,
- bedaze,
- benumb,
- benumbed,
- besot,
- bite,
- blah,
- blase,
- blunt,
- bored,
- callous,
- casual,
- chill,
- chloroform,
- coldcock,
- comatose,
- cushion,
- cut,
- dead,
- deaden,
- deaden the pain,
- deadened,
- debilitated,
- desensitize,
- desensitized,
- detached,
- diminish,
- disinterested,
- dope,
- dopey,
- dormant,
- droopy,
- drug,
- drugged,
- dull,
- ease,
- ease matters,
- enervated,
- etherize,
- exanimate,
- foment,
- freeze,
- frost,
- frostbite,
- give relief,
- go through,
- heartless,
- heavy,
- hebetudinous,
- hopeless,
- immobilize,
- impassible,
- imperceptive,
- impercipient,
- in a stupor,
- inanimate,
- incurious,
- indifferent,
- inert,
- insensate,
- insensible,
- insensitive,
- insentient,
- insouciant,
- jaded,
- kayo,
- knock out,
- knock senseless,
- knock stiff,
- knock unconscious,
- KO,
- lackadaisical,
- languid,
- languorous,
- Laodicean,
- lay,
- lay out,
- leaden,
- lessen,
- lethargic,
- lifeless,
- listless,
- lull,
- lumpish,
- mitigate,
- mollify,
- moribund,
- mull,
- narcotize,
- nip,
- nonchalant,
- numbed,
- obdurate,
- obtund,
- obtuse,
- Olympian,
- pad,
- palliate,
- palsy,
- paralyze,
- passive,
- penetrate,
- phlegmatic,
- pierce,
- pluckless,
- pooped,
- poultice,
- pour balm into,
- pour oil on,
- put to sleep,
- reduce,
- refrigerate,
- relieve,
- remote,
- resigned,
- salve,
- sated,
- senseless,
- slack,
- slacken,
- slake,
- sleepy,
- slow,
- sluggish,
- soften,
- somnolent,
- soothe,
- soporific,
- spiritless,
- spunkless,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- stoic,
- stultified,
- stun,
- stupe,
- stupefied,
- stupefy,
- subdue,
- supine,
- thick-skinned,
- thick-witted,
- torpid,
- uncaring,
- unconcerned,
- unconscious,
- unfeeling,
- unfelt,
- uninterested,
- unperceptive,
- vegetable,
- vegetative,
- wan,
- weary,
- withdrawn,
- world-weary