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BENUMBED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does benumbed mean?
• BENUMBED (adjective)
The adjective BENUMBED has 2 senses:
1. lacking sensation
2. having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure
Familiarity information: BENUMBED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking sensation
Synonyms:
Context example:
numb with cold
Similar:
insensible (incapable of physical sensation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure
Synonyms:
benumbed; dulled
Context example:
the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond
Similar:
uninterested (not having or showing interest)
Context examples
When really touched by affliction, her active powers had been all benumbed; and neither Lady Bertram nor Tom had received from her the smallest support or attempt at support.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Besides, they were snarling all the time, and his benumbed and drowsy senses no longer took note of changing pitch and intensity.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I ordered it to be repaired, bought some furniture, and took possession, an incident which would doubtless have occasioned some surprise had not all the senses of the cottagers been benumbed by want and squalid poverty.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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