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▪ I. ˈnumbing, vbl. n.
[f. numb v. + -ing1.]
The action of making numb.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iv. Handicrafts 191 A flock of Muttons..(Whose freez-clad bodies feele not Winter's numming). 1875Whitney Life Lang. xiv. 292 By the numbing of the single nerve of audition.
▪ II. ˈnumbing, ppl. a.
[f. numb v. + -ing2.]
1. That numbs, or induces numbness. Also fig.
1634Milton Comus 853 She can unlock The clasping charm, and thaw the numming spell. 1699Garth Dispens. i. (1706) 6 The Poppy and each numming Plant dispense Their drowzy Virtue. 1716Pope Iliad vii. 324 His slacken'd knees received the numbing stroke. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VI. 267 The numbing quality, which has acquired them the name of the torpedo. 1801Southey Thalaba xii. xxi, Thalaba, with numbing force, Smites his raised arm, and rushes by. 1885Athenæum 23 May 658/3 The numbing effect of sixth forms and university honours.
2. numbing-fish or numbing-eel, = numb-fish.
1748Anson's Voy. ii. xii. 362 We here..met with that extraordinary fish called the Torpedo, or numbing fish. 1794Wolcot (P. Pindar) Celebration Wks. 1816 III. 8 Th' electric shock..a man upon the black-brow'd rock Has oft experienc'd from the numbing eel.
Hence ˈnumbingly adv.
1768Woman of Honor III. 108 Hardly possible to conceive any thing more..numbingly stupid than their assembly-nights. |