Deprived for the moment of the power of action, dazed, paralysed. archaic.

Deprived of physical sensation or of the power of movement, esp. through extreme cold.

Made clumsy or unable to grasp; benumbed, paralysed. Cf. clumse, v., acumble, v.

Rendered torpid or numb; deprived of strength or the power of motion by a chilling influence. literal and transferred as in benumb, v. 1 2.

Deprived of physical sensation or of the power of movement, esp. through extreme cold.

Bereft of sensation; stunned, benumbed. Obsolete.

Stunned, benumbed, stupefied, insensible.

Covered with thickened skin; hardened, callous: chiefly figurative. Obsolete (at least in figurative sense.)

Affected with numbness or ‘sleep’. Obsolete. rare.

Burnt by cautery; seared.

Deadened; numbed; insensible. Now rare.

That is or has been stupefied (in various senses); (now) esp. in a state of astonishment, shock, etc.; stunned.

Blunted, deadened; dulled; (later, Medicine) exhibiting obtundation.

transitive. To deaden. Only found in participles beˈdeaded adj. deadened. beˈdeading n. deadening.