numb
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3.1
- adjective
- /nʌm/
:
entumecido
- After sitting on the cold ground for too long, my legs became numb and I couldn't feel them.
- numb with cold
- stiff or numb
Your body is numb, the senses are numb.
- Your body is numb, the senses are numb.
- So the right side of my face was numb for about two months.
- I'm on the ground, my arm goes numb.
- Have you ever napped so deeply that your teeth feel numb?
- I just got like a cavity filled so half of my face is kind of numb.
- You know that wave that you feel, or your tongue gets numb, or you get tightness in your cheeks or you freeze?
- I think my mouth is so numb to to peppermint that I'll be OK with the sneezing.
- But literally as I'm laying on the ground now my from my toes to my chest here is going numb and it's going numb so quick.
Examples
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And one day I was sitting in my office writing a grant and half of my face went numb, this numb.
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So the right side of my face was numb for about two months.
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My body grew numb, and then I fell all the way down.
Academic text (2003) -
God, my feet are numb.
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My hands are totally numb.
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His left leg and left arm were numb, having been caught beneath his body for hours.
Fiction book (1993) -
When I went down, I went numb, completely numb. I couldn't feel anything.
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My legs felt numb, and I was dizzy as I tried to stand.
Fiction book (1992) -
My face is numb.
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My arm went numb.
Synonyms
691
4.1
Without feeling or movement in a body part, like after an injection
22
2.9
Numb and without feeling in a hand or foot
1
7.5
Unconscious and unable to feel pain or touch
1
9.9
Having no feeling in body or mind and no pity
Without feeling in part of the body because of cold, shock, or strong emotion
A part of the body that has no feeling so you cannot feel touch
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Etymology
Numb goes back to a very old German word meaning 'stiff' or 'without feeling', so it describes a body part that cannot feel after cold or anesthesia.