benumbed

benumbed
    adj 1: lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"
           [syn: {asleep(p)}, {benumbed}, {numb}]
    2: having lost or been caused to lose interest because of
       overexposure; "the mind of the audience is becoming dulled";
       "the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond"
       [syn: {dulled}, {benumbed}]
    

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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Benumbed \Be*numbed"\, a.
   Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body
   and mind. -- {Be*numbed"ness}, n.
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91 Moby Thesaurus words for "benumbed":
      Laodicean, Olympian, aloof, anesthetized, apathetic, asleep, blah,
      blase, bored, callous, comatose, dead, deadened, debilitated,
      desensitized, detached, disinterested, dopey, dormant, droopy,
      drugged, dull, enervated, exanimate, heartless, heavy,
      hebetudinous, hopeless, impassible, imperceptive, impercipient,
      in a stupor, inanimate, indifferent, inert, insensate, insensible,
      insensitive, insentient, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languid,
      languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lumpish,
      moribund, nonchalant, numb, numbed, obdurate, obtuse, passive,
      phlegmatic, pluckless, pooped, resigned, sated, senseless, slack,
      sleepy, slow, sluggish, somnolent, soporific, spiritless,
      spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, stoic, stultified, stupefied,
      supine, thick-skinned, thick-witted, torpid, uncaring, unconcerned,
      unfeeling, unfelt, uninterested, unperceptive, vegetable,
      vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, world-weary