numbing
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- adjective
- /ˈnʌmɪŋ/
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anestésico
- The dentist applied a numbing gel to ease the pain before the procedure.
Don't waste all your time doing stuff that's just boring or bland or numbing, right?
- Don't waste all your time doing stuff that's just boring or bland or numbing, right?
- I mean, like the girls are using numbing cream.
- So that one, it was like temporary numbing agent essentially.
- It's not painless, but it's not that painful because you get numbing cream and under the eyes, you can barely feel it.
- It feels just normal kind of, you know, like that, that the numbing cream is has kind of like fully worn off now, but it doesn't hurt.
- So they numb both of your eyes using numbing drops, and then they come over the top with a kind of a large box on an arm.
- You're just like, but it wasn't, it wasn't really numbing and it was numbing, but it wasn't really.
- It's 'cause like my like low key eating a numbing cream and I was like, it's getting all my tongue.
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But often it's just a form of numbing that disassociates and disconnects you from you.
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The white part is where the numbing injection was.
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And I think people drink in order to feel something, but understand that it's just another form of really numbing yourself.
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So it, it, it felt, it felt numb, like it had this wonderful numbing effect.
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This is throat numbing spray, like if you have a sore throat, right?
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That financial pressure was mind numbing and just getting out of bed was literally like climbing Mount Everest.
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Don't waste all your time doing stuff that's just boring or bland or numbing, right?
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I'm most excited about a red Sichuan peppercorn wing sauce I made that has a numbing sauce, a numbing effect in terms of its heat.
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For anybody who doesn't know Szechuan, that's the famous tongue numbing spice from China.
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After taking the pain medication, she experienced a numbing sensation in her arm.
Synonyms
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Causing a loss of feeling, especially of pain
Making a person feel less pain or fear
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Etymology
Numbing comes from the old English root numb, which meant 'without feeling' or 'stiff'. So something numbing either takes away physical feeling (like a cream or the cold) or stops your emotional reaction (like shocking news), because it makes you unable to feel or respond.