Word Meanings - NUMB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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."

Additional info about word: 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." Shak. 2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NUMB)

• Blunt
• To subdue
• repress
• tranquilize
• discourage
• ossify
• numb
• harden
• Torpid
• Numb
• lifeless
• senseless
• dull
• sluggish
• inactive
• hibernating
• insensible
• inert

Related words: (words related to NUMB)

• LIFELESS
  Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
• OSSIFY
  To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• BLUNTISH
  Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
• INERTIA
  That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• HIBERNATION
  The act or state of hibernating. Evelyn.
• 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.
• TRANQUILIZE; TRANQUILLIZE
  To render tranquil; to allay when agitated; to compose; to make calm and peaceful; as, to tranquilize a state disturbed by factions or civil commotions; to tranquilize the mind. Syn. -- To quiet; compose; still; soothe; appease; calm; pacify. (more
• SUBDUEMENT
  Subdual. Shak.
• TORPIDITY
  See TORPIDNESS
• INERTLY
  Without activity; sluggishly. Pope.
• INACTIVE
  Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive
• TORPIDLY
  In a torpid manner.
• 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
• REPRESS
  1. To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent. 2. Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back. Desire of wine and all
• INACTIVELY
  In an inactive manner. Locke.
• TRANQUILIZER; TRANQUILLIZER
  One who, or that which, tranquilizes.
• 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.
• OVERHARDEN
  To harden too much; to make too hard. Boyle.
• SELF-HARDENING
  Designating, or pert. to, any of various steels that harden when heated to above a red heat and cooled in air, usually in a blast of cold air with moderate rapidity, without quenching. Such steels are alloys of iron and carbon with manganese,
• IRREPRESSIBLY
  In a manner or to a degree that can not be repressed.
• CASEHARDEN
  1. To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel. 2. To render insensible to good influences.