Benumb

Definition: Benumb

Benumb

Verb

1. Make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses".

Date "benumb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Benumb \Be*numb"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Benumbed; present participle verb or noun Benumbing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Benumb

Synonyms: blunt (v), dull (v), numb (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insensibility	Render insensible, render callous; blunt, obtund, numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate, stun, stupefy; brutify; brutalize; chloroform, anaesthetize, put under; assify.
Numbness	Verb: benumb .
Physical Insensibility	Render insensible. Adjective: anaesthetize, blunt, pall, obtund, benumb, paralyze; put under the influence of chloroform. Noun: stupefy, stun.
Refrigeration	Verb: cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate; benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter,
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Benumb

English words defined with "benumb": Benumbing ♦ Shram ♦ Torpify. (references)

Etymologies containing "benumb": Benim. (references)

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Language		Translations for "benumb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		paralizoj (hamstring, palsy, paralyse, paralyze), mpij (blunt, cramp, drowse, dull, numb, stupefy). (various references)

Arabic		‏خدر (anaesthesia, anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthesia, anesthetize, creep, deaden, drug, look out, narcotize, numb, numbness, opiate, stupefaction, stupefy, stupor, torpid, torpor), ‏جعله خدرا, ‏شل (cripple, numb, paralyse, paralyze, stalemate, transfix, wither). (various references)

Bulgarian		сковавам (grip, numb), вцепенявам (numb, stupefy). (various references)

Czech		zkřehnout. (various references)

French		paralyser (to become cripped, to become lame), engourdir, endormir. (various references)

German		betäuben (anaesthetize, anesthetize, daze, deaden, deafen, drug, ease, intoxicate, kill, numb, put out, put under, stun, stunning, to anesthetize, to intoxicate, to stun, to stupefy). (various references)

Greek		ναρκώνω (anaesthetize, chloroform, hocus, numb), μουδιάζω (chill, numb, to numb). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"ק�"ות חושים. (various references)

Hungarian		megdermeszt (give the chills, numb, to benumb, to chill, to congeal, to curdle, to numb, to petrify, to stupefy), megbénít (cripple, hamstring, immobilize, lame, palsy, paralyse, paralyze, to benumb, to disable, to hamstring, to hock, to inhibit, to lame, to maim, to palsy, to tie up), elzsibbaszt (to benumb, to numb). (various references)

Indonesian		menggigil (aquiver, shudder, wince). (various references)

Italian		intorpidire (dull, grow numb, numb, stupefy), intirizzire (grow numb, grow stiff, make stiff, numb). (various references)

Manx		neuvioyree (disable), neuvioyraghey (benumbing, disable, enervate), kyrloghey (anaesthetization, anaesthetize, anaesthetize locally, benumbing, deaden, numb, paralyse, stun), kyrloghe (cramped, insensible, numb, sleeping, torpid). (various references)

Pig Latin		enumbbay

Portuguese		paralisar (block, choke, immobilize, palsy, paralyse, paralyze, petrochemical, shrivel), entorpecer (drug, dullard, paralyse, stiffen, stupefy, tingle), amortecer (absorb, amortize, blunt, break, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, fade, muffle, rebate, weaken). (various references)

Romanian		toci (blunt, con, cram, cram up, dull, fret, grind, hack, mug, plug, rebate, take the edge off, wear), amorţi (dull, numb, sleep, stiffen, stupefy). (various references)

Russian		оцепенеть (petrify), приводить в оцепенение. (various references)

Scottish		lath. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		umrtviti (deaden, impoverish), paralisati (paralyse, paralyze, unnerve). (various references)

Spanish		entumecer (be numb), embotar (blunt, dull), dejar paralizado. (various references)

Swedish		förlama (numb, paralyse, paralyze, unnerve). (various references)

Turkish		uyuşturmak (anaesthetize, drug, dull, lull, narcotize, numb, stupefy), hissizleştirmek (de-emotionalize, numb). (various references)

Ukranian		робити нечутливим (case harden), притупляти (damp, deaden, dull, narcotize, opiate, quench, rebate, rust), приводити до заціпеніння, паралізувати (checkmate, palsy, paralyse, paralyze, petrify). (various references)

Welsh		merwino (numb, smart, tingle), fferru (congeal, freeze, perish with cold), diffrwytho (make barren, paralyze). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	consopire, consopiti, consopitus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "benumb": benumbed, benumbing, benumbs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Benumb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bedumb, Beinum, Benburb, Bendumb, bentum, benum, Binab, Biumba, bonum. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-b-e-m-n-u"
	-2 letters: menu, neum, numb, unbe.
	-3 letters: ben, bub, bum, bun, ebb, emu, men, mun, neb, nub.
	-4 letters: be, em, en, me, mu, ne, nu, um, un.
	Words containing the letters "b-b-e-m-n-u"
	+1 letter: benumbs.
	+2 letters: benumbed, buncombe.
	+3 letters: bedumbing, benumbing, buncombes.
	+4 letters: bejumbling, cumberbund, numberable.
	+5 letters: cumberbunds, subbasement, unclimbable.
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