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  2  definitions  found 
 
  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  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  numbing 
  adj  :  causing  numbness  or  insensitivity;  "the  numbing  effect  of 
  grief" 




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