numb

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1. numb - Adjective

2. numb - Verb

3. numb - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.

Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night.

To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.

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Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88) James Frey

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state. Sylvia Plath

Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters. Albert Schweitzer

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive. Jeanette Winterson

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb. Kathy Mattea

Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb. Anne Sexton

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