beˈnumbment [f. as prec. + -ment.] The action of benumbing; the fact or condition of being benumbed; torpor. 1816Kirby & Sp.Entomol. (1843) II. 357 At first a partial benumbment takes place.1851Bunsen in Macready's Remin. II. 388 After one century of bloody internal wars and another of benumbment.