Word Meanings - BENUMBED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.

Related words: (words related to BENUMBED)

• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• BENUMBED
  Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.
• STUPEFIEDNESS
  Quality of being stupid.
• 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
• TORPIDITY
  See TORPIDNESS
• DEADENER
  One who, or that which, deadens or checks.
• TORPIDLY
  In a torpid manner.
• NUMBEDNESS
  Numbness. Wiseman.
• STUPEFIER
  One who, or that which, stupefies; a stupefying agent.
• NUMB
  to take, AS. niman, p. p. numen. *7. See Nimble, Nomad, and cf. 1. Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold. "A stony image, cold and numb."
• NUMBER
  The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of
• NUMBERLESS
  Innumerable; countless.
• TORPIDNESS
  The qualityy or state of being torpid.
• NUMBERS
  of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
• NUMBFISH
  The torpedo, which numbs by the electric shocks which it gives.
• BENUMBMENT
  Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor. Kirby.
• BENUMB
  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.
• TORPID
  1. Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb. Without heat all things would be torpid. Ray. 2. Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. Sir M. Hale.
• NUMBERER
  One who numbers.
• STUPEFIED
  Having been made stupid.
• OUTNUMBER
  To exceed in number.
• INUMBRATE
  To shade; to darken.
• ANTENUMBER
  A number that precedes another. Bacon.
• MISNUMBER
  To number wrongly.
• PENUMBRA
  The shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of partial illumination between the umbra, or perfect shadow, on all sides, and the full light. Sir I. Newton. Note: The faint
• UNBENUMB
  To relieve of numbness; to restore sensation to.