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Meaning of numb

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  numb
      adj 1: lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"
             [syn: {asleep(p)}, {benumbed}, {numb}]
      2: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
         unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help";
         "numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: {dead(p)}, {numb(p)}]
      3: so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed
         with terror; petrified; "too numb with fear to move"
      v 1: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
           [syn: {numb}, {benumb}, {blunt}, {dull}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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