numbing
Speech parts
1. numbing - Noun
2. numbing - Verb
4. numbing - Adjective Satellite
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of Numb
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the numbing effect of grief
Although recognizable as the old dish, there were strange new dimensions: the deep funk of fermented black beans, the faintly citrusy aroma, and even more mysteriously, the tingling numbing quality that spread across my mouth and throat.
A Lyme-carrying tick may be smaller than a pinhead, and it releases numbing compounds while it feeds, so many victims never realize they've been bitten.
How numbing the roar, capping a 14-0 run in a little more than 3 minutes of a game the Aztecs led for just 24 seconds?
In his memoirs, Speer described the numbing lifestyle of Hitler's inner circle, forced to stay up most of the night listening to the insomniac Nazi leader's repetitive monologues or to an unvarying selection of music.
It is based on the Greek word ναρκωσις (narcosis), the term used by Hippocrates for the process of numbing or the numbed state.