verb
definition
To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.
definition
To deaden, dull (the mind, faculties, etc.).
adjective
definition
Lacking sensation; numb.
definition
Lacking emotion or interest; dulled.
Examples of benumbed in a Sentence
The condition is unassociated with pain, for the reason that the nerves are benumbed.
He did nothing himself and benumbed his followers.
I am so benumbed that I cannot put forth a hand to take them!
The earth seemed benumbed by his icy touch, and the very spirits of the trees had withdrawn to their roots, and there, curled up in the dark, lay fast asleep.
But that view which admits a life of God that is not benumbed in an unchangeable sameness will be able to understand his eternal co-working as a variable quantity, the transforming influence of which comes forth at particular moments and attests that the course of nature is not shut up within itself.