numb /ˈnʌm/
(a.)痲木的,失去知覺的(vt.)使痲木,使昏迷,使失去知覺
numb /ˈnəm/ 形容詞
Numb a.
1. Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold. “A stony image, cold and numb.”
2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night. [Obs.]
Numb, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Numbed p. pr. & vb. n. Numbing ] To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.
For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. --Dryden.
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. --Tennyson.
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numb
adj 1: lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"
[syn: asleep(p), benumbed]
2: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help";
"numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: dead(p), numb(p)]
3: so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed
with terror; "petrified with fear"; "she was petrified by
the eerie sound"; "too numb with fear to move" [syn: petrified]
v : make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
[syn: benumb, blunt, dull]