numb
adjective
[ nʌm ]
• (of a part of the body) deprived of the power of physical sensation.
• "my feet were numb with cold"
Similar:
deprived of sensation,
without feeling,
numbed,
benumbed,
dead,
deadened,
desensitized,
insensible,
insensate,
senseless,
unfeeling,
anaesthetized,
drugged,
dazed,
stunned,
stupefied,
in shock,
paralysed,
petrified,
immobilized,
frozen,
chilled,
torpefied,
numb
verb
• deprive of feeling or responsiveness.
• "the cold had numbed her senses"
Similar:
deadening,
desensitizing,
benumbing,
anaesthetizing,
anaesthetic,
paralysing,
torpefying,
freezing,
glacial,
raw,
piercing,
cutting,
bitter,
arctic,
polar,
Origin:
late Middle English nome(n), past participle of obsolete nim ‘take’.
