Synonyms for numb
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1. numbverb

   Synonyms:
   benumb

   Antonyms:
   sensitive, sensible

2. numbadjective

   Without the power of sensation and motion or feeling; insensible.

   The dentist gave me novocaine to numb my tooth before drilling, thank goodness.

   Synonyms:
   benumb

   Antonyms:
   sensitive, sensible

3. numbadjective

   Antonyms:
   sensible, sensitive

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1. asleep(p), benumbed, numbadjective

   lacking sensation

   "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"

   Antonyms:
   fearless, sensible, sensitive, unafraid(p)

2. dead(p), numb(p)adjective

   (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive

   "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"

   Antonyms:
   fearless, unafraid(p), sensitive, sensible

3. numbverb

   so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified

   "too numb with fear to move"

   Synonyms:
   numb(p), asleep(p), benumbed, dead(p)

   Antonyms:
   sensitive, sensible, fearless, unafraid(p)

4. numb, benumb, blunt, dullverb

   make numb or insensitive

   "The shock numbed her senses"

   Synonyms:
   benumb, tone down, mute, dull, deaden, blunt, pall, damp, muffle, dampen

   Antonyms:
   sensitive, fearless, unafraid(p), sensible

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1. • Desensitize

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1. choke (verb)

   to stop something from being done

   the assistants were all choked on the extra assignment the boss had given them

   Submitted by erhnice on July 28, 2019  

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1. numbadjective

   Synonyms:
   torpid, benumbed

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1. numbadjective

   Synonyms:
   deadened, unfeeling, insensible, benumbed

2. numbverb

   Synonyms:
   benumb, deaden

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1. List of paraphrases for "numb":

   insensitive, paralyzed, asleep, paralysed

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How to use numb in a sentence?

1. John Garcia:

   [ I was trying to escape from ] the pain, the misery. The stress. The pressure. You name it. I was just trying to escape. That was my escape route. Not a healthy choice, but it was mainly to numb myself … The mere fact of seeing all the dead bodies, going to autopsies and doing the death notifications during the wee hours of the morning. Oscar-winning actor Actor Haing Ngor. who survived the savage horrors of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, was shot to death outside Actor Haing Ngor apartment. ( Oxygen).

2. Keith Ellison:

   My office I will support law enforcement prosecutors every way we can in solving this crime holding accountable those responsible, school shootings, mass shootings gun violence happen far too often — and we must never become numb or desensitized. We must hold our hearts open to all the outrage and hold our minds open to all the solutions for ending it. We must not accept any more death and lives torn apart.

3. Jennia Taylor:

   I was numb. I was in shock for three days after I heard about the shooting.

4. Takuya Takahashi:

   The Japanese market has become numb to its own economy as there were scarier events in the past week in the global market, today is all about a technical rebound.

5. Valentina Yermakova:

   We locked our apartment when we left. The looters wouldn't have been able to walk in, so they broke the door down, you go in and it's not that you want to cry, it's more that you get silent and numb from everything you see. The pain, it clenches inside you.