benumbing
- present participle of benumb.
Example Sentences
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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
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A very useful word is 'KOMING' When lack of data gets benumbing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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