How To Use Benumb In A Sentence
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The benumbing influence of antiquity -- or rather of that extended period which may be called the Aristotelian age, the age in which all philosophic thought was utterly benumbed by the Greek literature -- has not yet passed away.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2
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After I have heard you myself, when the whole of my right side has been benumbed, going on with your master about combustion, and calcination, and calorification, and I may say every kind of ation that could drive
Hard Times
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In a sense, since I still can't watch with ironic or benumbed remove, my fright speaks well of a film's potency.
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570 Then she took from her side a plaited scourge and came down with it on my back and the place where I sit till her forearms were benumbed and I fainted away from the much beating; when she said to the handmaids, “Take him and carry him to the Chief of Police, that he may strike off the hand wherewith he ate of the cumin ragout, and which he did not wash.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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_ Certain poisonous drugs may prove effective to suppress certain symptoms by benumbing the nerves and preventing pain; they may, and do counteract the natural process by which nature exercises her power in various ways in the spontaneous effort to throw off disease, in the form of inflammations, fevers or pains; _but they can never heal, or eradicate disease_.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
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Behind them trailed a small escort of equally benumbed guardsmen, every one with weapons, if not in hand, then at the ready.
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I had not thought to find the faculties of Salamon Sweers so quickly benumbed by what was indeed a wild and dangerous confrontment, yet not so formidable and hopeless as to weaken the nerves of a seaman.
The Honour of the Flag
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Nor are narcotics -- from narkosis, Greek for "benumbed" -- necessarily all about nodding.
Chicago Reader
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Not until, hungered and benumbed by cold, I found the road I sought, did I open my clenched hand, there to reveal the new-minted roughness of the silver coin given me by my mother.
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the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond
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Unfortunately, the audience becomes so benumbed by the endless carnage that any emotional connection to the individual players is reduced to an insulting inconsequentiality.
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She drank with her heart and eyes the poison these passionate words contained; she allowed herself to be swayed at will by these melodies which lulled but did not benumb.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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By means of these simple packs followed by cold ablutions, the temperature of the patient can be kept at any point desired without the use of poisonous antifever medicines, serums and antitoxins which lower the temperature by benumbing and paralyzing heart action, respiration, the red and white blood corpuscles, and thus generally lowering the vital activities of the organism.
Nature Cure
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There is a peace of conscience which is a disease of conscience, a benumbedness of conscience, or a sleep of conscience, when men walk in the imagination of their own hearts, and flatter themselves in their own eyes, will not trouble themselves with the apprehension of the wrath of God.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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My breath was stuck in my stomach, my limbs benumbed, my senses catapulted into a no-go area where terror meets exhilaration.
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When I felt that cursed wheel pass across my breast, when I felt the pistol-ball benumb my arm, I felt no more agitation than at the bounce of a champagne-cork.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Unsure whether to be relieved or paranoid, Karae unfolded her benumbed legs and lay back in the thick grass, dozing happily, taking full advantage of the calm state her meditation had bestowed on her.
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Something has benumbed our consciousness against this reality.
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After I have heard you myself, when the whole of my right side has been benumbed, going on with your master about combustion, and calcination, and calorification, and I may say every kind of ation that could drive a poor invalid distracted, to hear you talking in this absurd way about sparks and ashes!
Hard Times
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For the most part, we are benumbed, befuddled or afraid.
Judith Acosta: The Great American Trance
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So he stood at the bedside, gripping his father's arm, benumbed by the emotions his father was displaying, the emotions he himself was feeling.
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Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother. —
Red Pottage
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The general reaction in the country has been benumbed indifference.
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In a benumbing turn of events, Abe Foxman, chief of the influential Anti-Defamation League and opponent of Park51 -- the so-called Ground Zero Mosque -- gave a speech this week decrying the rising culture of anti-Islam bigotry.
Adam Chandler: Prominent Park51 Opponent: Stop Anti-Muslim Bigotry
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The homeless was benumbed with cold.
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She was benumbed with grief at the death of her husband.
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Unfortunately, the audience becomes so benumbed by the endless carnage that any emotional connection to the individual players is reduced to an insulting inconsequentiality.
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And for a country that was born of faith and the fearlessness of millions of people crawling, paddling and begging their ways here so they could be free to now be a country paralyzed by magical thinking and benumbed with viral fear is heartbreaking.
Judith Acosta: How Marketers Capitalize On Your Fear: Confessions Of An Ex-Ad-Woman
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Refusing to believe in the interference, and even presence of the spirits, in the so-called spiritualistic phenomena, we nevertheless believe in the living spirit of man; we believe in the omnipotence of this spirit, and in its natural, though benumbed capacities.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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These weeks, however, when we are gathered together benumbed and in need of each other are not the moments for critical analysis.
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Mana Steal Benumb and Mana Steal FogMoth Bow are now more effective.
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King responded to the salute from Obama with a kind of benumbed indifference, although later in the show he expressed oddly unctuous gratitude to fellow TV talker "Dr. Phil" McGraw, who popped into the studio for a folksy bye-bye.
A star-studded, but still somewhat muted, farewell for 'Larry King Live'
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I went about picking up mounds of dirt to drop into the pit, and my hands, already dirty with muck, became benumbed under the frigid air.
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It is the proof of our own benumbment if we do not feel that such accusations resulted in spiritual crucifixion.
The Epistles of St. Peter
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We would not employ the barbasco, that is to say, the roots of the Piscidea erithyrna, the Jacquinia armillaris, and some species of phyllanthus, which thrown into the pool, intoxicate or benumb the eels.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
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When she returned perhaps their lives would readjust themselves -- but for the moment he longed for some kind of benumbing influence, something that should give relief to the dull daily ache of feeling her so near and yet so inaccessible.
The Custom of the Country
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Thou, my Alan, wilt treat as timidity this passive acquiescence, which has sunk down on me like a benumbing torpor; but if thou hast remembered by what visions my couch was haunted, and dost but think of the probability that I am in the vicinity, perhaps under the same roof with
Redgauntlet
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That of body is nothing but a kind of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe [1547] Fernelius, causeth crudities, obstructions, excremental humours, quencheth the natural heat, dulls the spirits, and makes them unapt to do any thing whatsoever.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Workers seemed so benumbed that they couldn't perceive just how numb they were.
Times, Sunday Times
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His hand left his weapon and trailed down his friend's benumbed arm.
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The homeless was benumbed with cold.
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This swift comparison between his present condition and the aims he had in view helped to benumb his faculties.
Father Goriot
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The susceptible and energetic mind, fortunately for its possessor, is endowed with an elastic power, that enables it to rise again from the benumbing effects of those adverse strokes of fortune to which it is but too vulnerable.
Memoirs of Mary Robinson
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Relaxation in trifles is often the beginning of moral benumbment.
The Epistles of St. Peter
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The hammer of the daily experience hits the same place at every moment, until life settles down into a benumbment which has no vision and no hope.
The Silver Lining: Messages of Hope and Cheer
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They had power to benumb every decent feeling in me.
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
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These have a narcotic ( "to benumb" G), or analgesic ( "no pain" G), effect and are not scorned even in modern medical practice.
The Human Brain
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He knew not what his thoughts were - his mind was benumbed and seemed to shun reflection and take refuge in vacancy.
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Besides, they were snarling all the time, and his benumbed and drowsy senses no longer took note of changing pitch and intensity.
The Hunger Cry
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Sturdy, more frost-resistant than bees, they were already on the wing and preying on the benumbed flies.
CHAPTER I
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The lights from the cars parked outside cut through the curtains and fall on Doug's exhausted, benumbed face.
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As Cameron speaks, at last the truth sinks into Tristan's benumbed brain.
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Benumbed fear often turns into panic, phobias, irrational prejudice, and violence.
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There was everything to repel -- the cold, the frost, the hardness, the snow, dark sky and ground, leaflessness; the very furze chilled and all benumbed.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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The dying lose correspondence after correspondence; nerve after nerve and sense after sense collapse; communications are slowly broken; and by gradual paralysis and benumbment all correspondences end.
The Epistles of St. Peter
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Sitting as close to the fire as possible, I tried to warm up my benumbed fingers.
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Some - but not all - of the 1946 drawings are uncharacteristically laconic and slightly benumbed.
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But there were so many chances against them in all these cases, such as storms, to overset and founder them; rains and cold, to benumb and perish their limbs; contrary winds, to keep them out and starve them; that it must have been next to miraculous if they had escaped.
The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
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She wandered through the house and around the backyard in a benumbed state of shock.
The Painter's Wife, a short story
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My breath was stuck in my stomach, my limbs benumbed, my senses catapulted into a no-go area where terror meets exhilaration.
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If it doesn't, we wind up like Fitzgerald, lost in a lost city, besotted by booze and benumbed by grief.
Judith Acosta: The Necessary Death of Romance
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She laughed, flexing the muscles of her benumbed leg: "Your expression intimidated me.
The Common Law
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The iron handle completed the benumbing and freezing of her wet and tiny hands; she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, the cold water which splashed from the pail fell on her bare legs.
Les Miserables
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Adult novella, a hugely distended tale within the network of tales that makes up the book, 90 pages long, as benumbing for an adult to read as almost any story written for the Young Adult market, whose products are about as close to genuine fiction as megachurches are to monasteries where silence is observed.
Scientifiction
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See the effect of it: The breadth of the waters is straitened, that is, the waters that had spread themselves, and flowed with liberty, are congealed, benumbed, arrested, bound up in crystal fetters.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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The pain was electric and compact, reducing everything to its own sort of benumbment, making the world beyond my head seem small and dazed.
Underworld
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Sheree stood there benumbed by what just occurred and by the fact that despite her convictions, she had so little regrets, too.
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Shall she be the Bondslave of Time, the Handmaid of opinion, or the strict observer of every frosty or cold benumbed imagination?
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Often the man will be free, while the woman and the dog side by side drag the cart to which they are tied, the woman usually knitting even when the air is cold enough to benumb her fingers.
In and Around Berlin
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When there is a benumbedness, or searedness, upon the grand principle of spiritual sense, so that, as it is expressed in
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.
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A wave of cold fear seemed to benumb his tongue and brain.
The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure
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Physical exhaustion and the resulting benumbment of a mind that depended much on sleep probably are the basic explanation for Jackson's inability to meet the demands of the campaign.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
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The scandals and crimes form a tsunami of noise, inrushing upon a benumbed ear, until all that can be perceived is a background static of wrongness, like the vestigial radiation of the Big Bang that permeates the universe.
Chip Collis: We Want Change... But From What?
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The fingers of the homeless were benumbed with cold.
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Vain men, whom hunger pinches, cold benumbs, and poverty emaciates.
Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian
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Those macabre photographs that benumbed the civilised world were worth a million words each.
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Mana Steal Benumb and Mana Steal FogMoth Bow are now more effective.
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That of body is nothing but a kind of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe [1547] Fernelius, causeth crudities, obstructions, excremental humours, quencheth the natural heat, dulls the spirits, and makes them unapt to do any thing whatsoever.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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By my dictionary definition, to stupefy means to "overwhelm with amazement, astound, astonish"; "to stun, as with strong emotions, to benumb the faculties of as in 'put in to a stupor'.
Karen Kisslinger: Ba(ra)ck to the Word "Stupid"
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The result was me holding a patient's chart in two benumbed hands while burning with humiliation at the note attached to the front: ‘Patient has decided to change oncologists.’
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And if we are to have this fine scent for the things of the King's gardens, we shall have to get rid of all our benumbment.
The Friend on the Road and Other Studies in the Gospels