| numb | | |
| v. (perception) | 1. benumb, blunt, dull, numb | make numb or insensitive.; "The shock numbed her senses" |
| ~ desensitise, desensitize | cause not to be sensitive.; "The war desensitized many soldiers"; "The photographic plate was desensitized" |
| adj. | 2. asleep, benumbed, numb | lacking sensation.; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold" |
| ~ insensible | incapable of physical sensation.; "insensible to pain"; "insensible earth" |
| adj. | 3. dead, numb | (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive.; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy" |
| ~ insensitive | deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive.; "insensitive to the needs of the patients" |
| adj. | 4. numb | so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified.; "too numb with fear to move" |
| ~ afraid | filled with fear or apprehension.; "afraid even to turn his head"; "suddenly looked afraid"; "afraid for his life"; "afraid of snakes"; "afraid to ask questions" |
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