benumb
verb (used with object)
to make numb; deprive of sensation.
benumbingly
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a word derived from
benumb.
Example Sentences
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But, like all the casuistical virtues, this position had the rigidity of something created to fit a special case; and the result was a fixity of attitude, which spread benumbingly over her whole nature.
From The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton
Once, before the Inn brake was ready to make its evening trip to Wahaska and the railway station, the premonition gripped him so benumbingly that he was sorely tempted.
From The Price by Francis Lynde
The clock ticked benumbingly the long hours away; the wind howled, or the wind was still; snow fell, or it was frostily clear; but nothing happened—nothing at all.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
