numb
verb/nʌm/
/nʌm/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they numb | /nʌm/ /nʌm/ |
| he / she / it numbs | /nʌmz/ /nʌmz/ |
| past simple numbed | /nʌmd/ /nʌmd/ |
| past participle numbed | /nʌmd/ /nʌmd/ |
| -ing form numbing | /ˈnʌmɪŋ/ /ˈnʌmɪŋ/ |
- numb something to make a part of your body unable to feel anything, for example because of cold
- His fingers were numbed with the cold.
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- numb somebody to make somebody unable to feel, think or react in a normal way, for example because of an emotional shock synonym stun
- We sat there in silence, numbed by the shock of her death.
Word Originlate Middle English nome(n), past participle of obsolete nim ‘take’.
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