numb
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- unfeeling, benumbed, dead, deadened, frozen, immobilized, insensitive, paralysed, torpid
[verb]
Synonyms:
- deaden, benumb, dull, freeze, immobilize, paralyse

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Contrasted words: alert, aware, conscious, sensitive
Related Words: insensate, insentient, stupefied, comatose, unconscious, chill, freeze, frost

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. numb¹ /nʌm/ adjective
[Date: 1400-1500; Origin: From the past participle of nim 'to take' (11-19 centuries), from Old English niman]

1. a part of your body that is numb is unable to feel anything, for example because you are very cold:
My fingers were so numb I could hardly write.
The anaesthetic made his whole face go numb.

2. unable to think, feel, or react in a normal way Synonym : paralysed
numb with shock/fear/terror etc
I just sat there, numb with fear.
—numbly adverb:
She watched numbly as Matt walked away.
—numbness noun [uncountable]:
It caused some numbness in my hand.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. numb² verb [transitive]

1. to make someone unable to feel pain or feel things they are touching:
The cold had numbed her fingers.
the numbing effect of the drug

2. to make someone unable to think, feel, or react in a normal way:
He was numbed by the shock of his wife’s death.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

numb
adj.
I. unable to feel pain
VERBS be, feel Robin's hand felt numb with cold.
become, go, turn His fingers were beginning to turn numb.
ADV. completely | almost | slightly
PREP. from My legs were numb from kneeling.
PHRASES numb with (the) cold Their fingers were going numb with cold.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

numb
II. unable to feel/think/react
VERBS be, feel, sound Her voice sounded numb.
leave sb The news left us numb and confused.
ADV. totally Laura felt totally numb.
PREP. with He felt numb with weariness and grief.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲