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[ UK /nˈʌmɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈnəmɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. causing numbness or insensitivity
    the numbing effect of grief

How To Use numbing In A Sentence

  • It's a flat place, not the mind-numbing flatness of western Kansas, there is some roll, some hilliness as the land rises toward the Ozark mountains of Missouri and Arkansas, but still smooth with a horizon that stretches forever. Archive 2010-04-01
  • Nevertheless, she put one foot in front of the other numbing herself to the pain and commenced her trudge.
  • It's how they deal with the mind-numbing tedium of riding long distances, the games the mind starts to play as your reach the end of your physical and mental tether.
  • It is injected in a simple procedure after the ear lobes have been frozen with a numbing gel. Times, Sunday Times
  • If there was no numbing and if the item was reasonably palatable, then they'd take another small bite and swallow.
  • Broadcaster John Humphrys recently attacked shows like Big Brother for their ‘mind-numbing, witless vulgarity.’
  • It was a nomadic yet static, spontaneous yet premeditated, engrossing yet mind-numbing existence with no end in sight No prize to be won. ICED
  • Thumbing a button, she raised the disc to her head and began to speak, intoning the routine blither in a stiflingly mind-numbing voice.
  • The number of devices, screen sizes, operating platforms, and support levels for small-screen browsing is mind-numbing.
  • Lia washed her hands, the cold water numbing her fingertips.
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