benumb
verb (used with object)
to make numb; deprive of sensation.
had benumbed
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past perfectof benumb.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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No longer feeling any cold in his legs and arms nor on his face, he thought that the frost had benumbed him.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
She fell from his palsied arms back on the couch, and he stood gazing on her as if struck by a power which had benumbed all his faculties.
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
Sleeping in the hot and almost fetid air had benumbed his brain.
From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The name had benumbed him again, and once more he felt as if Zeena were in the room between them.
From Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
During the crossing the stifling weight that had benumbed her intellect ever since the man with the dent in his hat came riding up the drive seemed suddenly to lift.
From Once Aboard the Lugger by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
