numbing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: numbing	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for numbing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
numbing adj causing numbness or insensitivity; "the numbing effect of grief"
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.