numb
adjective
deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move.
numbs
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present tense formof numb (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Relationships falter because videogames get in the way, and life dissolves into a virtual reality that numbs the pain meant to drive our growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
As Helena Fitzgerald wrote, "It is the kind of food that numbs pain and softens edges, turning a sharp and bitter world toward small, sense-based pleasures."
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
The local anaesthetic numbs the nerves in the short term.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024
The native of Puebla, Mexico, suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure and rheumatoid arthritis, which sometimes numbs the joints in his hands, making it difficult to work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
Rousseau’s disparagement of the English as “a nation of shopkeepers” persists as a belief that a concern with numbers and details numbs one to the big questions, to the grandeur of nature.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
