1. Lacking sensation
   "numb with cold"
   - asleep, benumbed 
2. (followed by 'to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
   "numb to the cries for mercy"
   - dead 
3. So frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralysed with terror; petrified
   "too numb with fear to move"

1. Make numb or insensitive
   "The shock numbed her senses"
   - benumb, blunt, dull

Derived forms: numbest, numbed, numbs, number, numbing

See also: afraid, 'fraid [non-standard], insensible, insensitive, numbly, numbness

Type of: desensitise [Brit], desensitize

Encyclopedia: Numb

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