benumb
verb (used with object)
to make numb; deprive of sensation.
benumbedness
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a word derived from
benumb.
Example Sentences
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However, this crisis seemed to have a beneficial effect upon her, for she became calmer; although, soon afterwards there came upon her a very remarkable condition of rigidity, as of benumbedness.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
