'Numbing' definitions:
Definition of 'numbing'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Causing numbness or insensitivity; "the numbing effect of grief"
Definition of 'Numbing'
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]
Definition of 'numbing'
From: GCIDE
- desensitizing \desensitizing\ adj. making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli. Opposite of sensitizing. [Narrower terms: numbing] [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'numbing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatement,
- algid,
- allayment,
- alleviating,
- alleviation,
- alleviative,
- analgesia,
- analgesic,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetic,
- anesthetizing,
- anodyne,
- appeasement,
- arctic,
- assuagement,
- assuasive,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- below zero,
- benumbing,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitterly cold,
- bleak,
- boreal,
- brisk,
- brumal,
- cathartic,
- cleansing,
- cold,
- cold as charity,
- cold as death,
- cold as ice,
- cold as marble,
- crisp,
- cutting,
- deadening,
- demulcent,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- dulling,
- ease,
- easement,
- easing,
- emollient,
- freezing,
- freezing cold,
- frigid,
- gelid,
- glacial,
- hibernal,
- hiemal,
- hyperborean,
- ice-cold,
- ice-encrusted,
- icelike,
- icy,
- inclement,
- keen,
- lenitive,
- lessening,
- lulling,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- mitigative,
- mollification,
- narcotic,
- nipping,
- nippy,
- pain-killing,
- palliation,
- palliative,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pinching,
- purgative,
- raw,
- reduction,
- relief,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- remedy,
- rigorous,
- salving,
- severe,
- sharp,
- Siberian,
- sleety,
- slushy,
- snappy,
- softening,
- soothing,
- stone-cold,
- stunning,
- stupefying,
- subduement,
- subduing,
- subzero,
- supercooled,
- winterbound,
- winterlike,
- wintery,
- wintry