Word Meanings - BENUMB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BENUMB)

• Congeal
• Freeze
• benumb
• congelate
• Deaden
• Benumb
• paralyze
• blunt
• damp
• subdue
• Paralyze
• prostrate
• enervate
• debilitate
• enfeeble

Related words: (words related to BENUMB)

• PARALYZE
  1. To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy. 2. Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.
• CONGEALABLE
  Capable of being congealed. --Con*geal"a*ble*ness, n.
• BENUMBED
  Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.
• BLUNTISH
  Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
• PROSTRATE
  Trailing on the ground; procumbent. (more info) prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot.
• ENFEEBLER
  One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
• BLUNTLY
  In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility. Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. Jeffrey.
• DEADEN
  Etym: 1. To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound. As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its
• SUBDUEMENT
  Subdual. Shak.
• ENERVATE
  To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden. Syn. -- To weaken;
• DEADENER
  One who, or that which, deadens or checks.
• SUBDUE
  1. To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish. I will subdue all thine enemies. 1 Chron. xvii. 10. 2. To overpower so as to disable from further
• CONGEAL
  1. To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze. A vapory deluge lies to snow congealed. Thomson. 2. To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill. As if with horror to congeal his blood. Stirling.
• BLUNTNESS
  1. Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness. The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland. 2. A bruptness of address; rude plainness. "Bluntness of speech." Boyle.
• DEBILITATE
  To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance. Various ails debilitate the mind. Jenyns. The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort. Sir W. Scott.
• FREEZE
  A frieze.
• CONGEALMENT
  1. The act or the process of congealing; congeliation. 2. That which is formed by congelation; a clot. Wash the congealment from your wounds. Shak.
• ENFEEBLEMENT
  The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
• BLUNT
  1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp. The murderous knife was dull and blunt. Shak. 2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute. His wits are not so blunt. Shak. 3. Abrupt in address;
• ENFEEBLE
  To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott. Syn. -- To weaken; debilitate; enervate.
• UNFREEZE
  To thaw.
• ENFREEZE
  To freeze; to congeal. Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser.