benumb
verb (used with object)
to make numb; deprive of sensation.
was benumbing
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past progressiveof benumb.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Suddenly, while an oppressive dream was benumbing my pain, a hellish uproar awoke me.
From Eyes Like the Sea by Mór Jókai
She suddenly felt drowsy--the snow-chill was benumbing her whole body, and somehow she no longer cared whether she was found or not.
From Timid Hare by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
An overpowering torpor, though not disagreeable, was benumbing her whole body, and before her eyes bright lights seemed to float, succeeded by thick darkness.
From Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre
The cold was benumbing, and both were suffering.
From 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God by Mikl?s J?sika
A slow paralysis was benumbing the limbs of the insurrection, and even at the heart its vitality was plainly declining.
From A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History by John George Nicolay
