numb adj

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

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 with fear"; "she was petrified by the eerie sound"; "too numb with fear to move" [syn: petrified] v : make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn: benumb, blunt, dull]

English

Pronunciation

• , /nʌm/, /nVm/

  Rhymes: -ʌm

Etymology

From the past participle of nim

Adjective

1. without the power of sensation and motion or feeling, insensible

Translations

Verb

1. To cause to become numb.

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

Numb may refer to:

• Paresthesia, a loss of physical sensation or numbness
• NUMB, a human gene
• Numb (album), an album by Hammerbox
• The Numb E.P., an EP by Baboon
• Numb (band), a Canadian industrial band
• "Numb" (Linkin Park song), a song by Linkin Park
• "Numb" (U2 song), a song by U2
• "Numb" (Pet Shop Boys song), a song by Pet Shop Boys
• "Numb", a song by Portishead from their 1994 album Dummy
• The Northwestern University Marching Band.
• Numb (2007), a film starring Matthew Perry
• "Numb", a song by P!nk off her best-selling album, Missundaztood
• "Numb", (2003) an American sci-fi film directed by Michael Ferris Gibson

See also

• "Comfortably Numb", a 1979 song by Pink Floyd

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