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benumbing

  • present participle of benumb.

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I attended and can assure you that, contrary to the glamorously edited videos in the show, they were malfunctioning, formless, benumbing ordeals.

From The New Yorker May 22, 2017

Tate Modern's current show Exposed, on surveillance photography, feels intellectually threadbare and aesthetically benumbing.

From The Guardian Jul. 9, 2010

If Susan Sontag's prose style is laborious, her film making is absolutely benumbing.

From Time Magazine Archive

A very useful word is 'KOMING' When lack of data gets benumbing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Clinic had prepared me for it, benumbing my sense of shame, and besides, I was desperate for money.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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