to numb
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- verb
- /nʌm/
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- The doctor gave her a shot to numb the pain before the procedure.
- mind-numbing
- numbing cream
- numb students with details
I'm actually trying to just numb myself from feeling things.
- I'm actually trying to just numb myself from feeling things.
- The whole thing with addiction is that it can numb out a pain that you feel.
- But maybe it's the drink had numbed a bit of the pain.
- I was drinking to switch off, to sleep, to numb it all, to forget about it.
- All right, so we're back, get a stiff drink, numb it out a little bit.
- Not just from this physical pain that I feel, it numbs my mind from this emotional pain.
- No, but she said that there's like a spray that numbs your throat.
- Adrenaline junkies, like there's something that numbs that anger.
- He seeks the lidocaine like effects of success that numb the pains of his insecurities.
- We live in a society that knows how to numb emotions and numb feelings, right?
- So again, the the drug abuse is to numb some sort of pain and feeling.
- Can you share now what you think led to the types of feelings you were trying to numb with substances?
- So depressed I could not function in my day-to-day without alcohol to numb that void, to numb that pain.
- We have made it here to this glass, numbed by breath.
- We can hide A quiet to mind to numb to numb, right.
- And then I, of course, would come home and drink to numb all of the everything.
Examples
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And, you know, I think at first I thought it was going to numb the pain.
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I was drinking to switch off, to sleep, to numb it all, to forget about it.
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And then I, of course, would come home and drink to numb all of the everything.
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It's just a shot to numb the brain.
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Just to numb the pain.
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The whole thing with addiction is that it can numb out a pain that you feel.
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We live in a society that knows how to numb emotions and numb feelings, right?
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Not just from this physical pain that I feel, it numbs my mind from this emotional pain.
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You know, there's times where I've used it to numb pain.
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So depressed I could not function in my day-to-day without alcohol to numb that void, to numb that pain.
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Etymology
The verb numb comes from the same old root and means 'to make without feeling', so a dentist, cold wind, or a bad experience can numb your body or your feelings.