numb

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

numb adjective, verb BrE [nʌm] NAmE [nʌm]
adjective
1. if a part of your body is numb, you cannot feel anything in it, for example because of cold
•to be/go numb
•numb with cold
•I've just been to the dentist and my face is still numb.
2. unable to feel, think or react in the normal way
•He felt numb with shock.
see also ↑numbing

Word Origin:
late Middle English nome(n), past participle of obsolete nim ‘take’.

Example Bank:
•He felt numb with weariness and grief.
•Her voice sounded numb.
•His fingers were beginning to go numb.
•Laura felt totally numb.
•My legs were numb from kneeling.
•Robin's hand felt numb with cold.
•The news left us numb and confused.
•Their fingers were going numb with cold.
Derived Words: ↑numbly ▪ ↑numbness
 
verb
1. ~ sth to make a part of your body unable to feel anything, for example because of cold
•His fingers were numbed with the cold.
2. ~ sb to make sb unable to feel, think or react in a normal way, for example because of an emotional shock
Syn: ↑stun
•We sat there in silence, numbed by the shock of her death.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
[numb numbly numbness] late Middle English nome(n), past participle of obsolete nim ‘take’.
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dead(p), numb(p), asleep(p), benumbed, benumb, blunt, dull