Numb : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Numb	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Numb
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
numb adj lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold" Synonym(s): asleep(p), benumbed, 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" Synonym(s): dead(p), numb(p) so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified; "too numb with fear to move" v make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" Synonym(s): numb, benumb, blunt, dull
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Numb \Numb\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Numbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Numbing}.] To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy. For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. --Dryden. Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Numb \Numb\, a. [OE. nume, nome, prop., seized, taken, p. p. of nimen to take, AS. niman, p. p. numen. [fb]7. See {Nimble}, {Nomad}, and cf. {Benumb}.] 1. Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold. [bd]A stony image, cold and numb.[b8] --Shak. 2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night. [Obs.] --Shak.