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benumbed
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective benumbed has 2 senses
- benumbed(s = adj.all) asleep, numb - lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"
- benumbed(s = adj.all) dulled - 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"
CIDE DICTIONARY
benumbed, a.
Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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torpid, uncaring, unconcerned, unfeeling, unfelt, uninterested, unperceptive, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, world-wearyROGET THESAURUS
benumbed
Numbness
N numbness, anaesthesia, pins and needles, numb, benumbed, deadened, intangible, impalpable, (2) Heat.
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