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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. lacking sensation;
- Example: "my foot is asleep"
- Example: "numb with cold"
[syn: asleep(p), benumbed, numb]

2. having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure;
- Example: "the mind of the audience is becoming dulled"
- Example: "the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond"
[syn: dulled, benumbed]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Benumb \Be*numb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Benumbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Benumbing.] [OE. binomen, p. p. of binimen to take away, AS. beniman; pref. be + niman to take. See Numb, a., and cf. Benim.] To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. [1913 Webster] The creeping death benumbed her senses first. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Benumbed \Be*numbed"\, a. Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

benumbed adj 1: lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold" [syn: asleep(p), benumbed, numb] 2: having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure; "the mind of the audience is becoming dulled"; "the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond" [syn: dulled, benumbed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

91 Moby Thesaurus words for "benumbed": Laodicean, Olympian, aloof, anesthetized, apathetic, asleep, blah, blase, bored, callous, comatose, dead, deadened, debilitated, desensitized, detached, disinterested, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, enervated, exanimate, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, hopeless, impassible, imperceptive, impercipient, in a stupor, inanimate, indifferent, inert, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, lumpish, moribund, nonchalant, numb, numbed, obdurate, obtuse, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, pooped, resigned, sated, senseless, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, somnolent, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, stoic, stultified, stupefied, supine, thick-skinned, thick-witted, torpid, uncaring, unconcerned, unfeeling, unfelt, uninterested, unperceptive, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, withdrawn, world-weary