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Verb: benumb  bi'núm
  1. Make numb or insensitive
    "The shock benumbed her senses";
    - numb, blunt, dull

Derived forms: benumbed, benumbing, benumbs

Type of: desensitise [Brit], desensitize

Encyclopedia: Benumb