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
That ceaseless, infernal din had benumbed his being.
From The Young Pitcher by Zane Grey
Sorrowful isolation had benumbed her sense of reality, and the power of distinguishing outward and inward was continually slipping away from her.
From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
The shock he had felt at Mrs. Ashwood's frigid disposition of his wishes and his manuscript had benumbed him to any enjoyment or appreciation of the change in his fortune.
From A First Family of Tasajara by Bret Harte
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
