benumb

benumb
    v 1: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
         [syn: {numb}, {benumb}, {blunt}, {dull}]
    

Benumb \Be*numb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Benumbed}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Benumbing}.] [OE. binomen, p. p. of binimen to take away,
   AS. beniman; pref. be + niman to take. See {Numb}, a., and
   cf. {Benim}.]
   To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to
   stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.
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         The creeping death benumbed her senses first. --Dryden.
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72 Moby Thesaurus words for "benumb":
      KO, abate, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, bedaze,
      bemuse, besot, bite, blunt, chill, chloroform, coldcock, cushion,
      cut, deaden, deaden the pain, desensitize, diminish, dope, drug,
      dull, ease, ease matters, etherize, foment, freeze, frost,
      frostbite, give relief, go through, kayo, knock out,
      knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, lay, lay out,
      lessen, lull, mitigate, mollify, mull, narcotize, nip, numb,
      obtund, pad, palliate, palsy, paralyze, penetrate, petrify, pierce,
      poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, put to sleep, reduce,
      refrigerate, relieve, salve, slacken, slake, soften, soothe, stun,
      stupe, stupefy, subdue