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Verb (used with object) : benumbed by cold. From Dictionary.com.
Nor are narcotics -- from narkosis, Greek for "benumbed" -- necessarily all about nodding. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
The warmth was very grateful to his benumbed frame. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
She could not think, every faculty seemed benumbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
When we are so benumbed, we pay no mind to consequences. From Wordnik.com. [Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Wages of Fear] Reference
These stones were so cold that they benumbed the fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
His love got benumbed, and the sense of his wrongs vivid. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
She returned home worn out physically, and mentally benumbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
Every eye was fixed, and each one seemed benumbed with misery. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
The mother's limbs were frost bitten and entirely benumbed with cold. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
"They are benumbed," she answered, letting him take them and rub them. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
They were benumbed by the cold and suffering from hunger and exposure. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
But he nearly always returned with benumbed hands and crying with cold. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty Indian Legends] Reference
"I'm sorry I didn't have anything to do with it," exclaimed the benumbed. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
Slowly withdrawing that benumbed arm, Pierre noiselessly arises from the cot. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Presently, this died away, and I fell back in utter helplessness, wholly benumbed. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The cry seemed to pierce the benumbed brain of her companion, as the lash the skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
Darlings to reach them, the other lying helplessly on the rocks, apparently benumbed. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Hastening forward, we both exclaimed, as we warmed our benumbed extremities over one of. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'] Reference
She struggled to her feet, but the mad thought of summer would cling to her benumbed fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
The drivers, benumbed with drink, frequently failed to ascertain whether death had occurred. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Marcia Lowe saw that she might hope to win her way if she did not startle the benumbed mind. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
His hand could scarcely hold the pistol, and his benumbed finger could scarcely pull the trigger. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
One felt the frost in the air, and fingers grasping the canvas shield of the conning tower were benumbed. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
He can minister to a stricken will, and make it as a benumbed hand when the circulation has been restored. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
He helped several of the benumbed men to lash themselves, saying encouraging things to them as he made them fast. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
His hand was tightly clutched about the haft of his knife, but it was so benumbed that he could not feel the weapon. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Morley and Treadwell stared at the two faces and into their benumbed consciousness something vital struggled to life. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
"Didn't know I was hurt at all until I saw the claret spouting; reckoned my paw was benumbed a bit, and that was all.". From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
Sometimes the sufferer was benumbed, or drawn violently together, and immediately afterwards stretched out and drawn back. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
And without all this, they would have been benumbed and dead of the cold, and forced to raise the siege sooner than they did. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
All were thoroughly wet and benumbed with cold, but as if to show contempt for the weather the Third sang with great unction. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
Does it not seem as if long billows of earth roll down toward the Arctic Ocean, where they rest benumbed by the eternal cold?. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
The blow that had fallen upon his promising and prosperous life seemed to have shattered his nerves and benumbed his initiative. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
At this weeping cry their courage falters, and a sigh of sorrow passes all along; their strength is benumbed and broken for battle. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
But Petru had not grown up without some hardships, so he only ground his teeth, though he was so benumbed that he couldn't even wink. From Wordnik.com. [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference
"Ow! it pinches like hot cakes!" grunted the late prisoner, as he was helped to his feet, and doubtless found part of his limbs benumbed or. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference
The lynx fought but feebly, seemingly benumbed by the strange apparition, and in a few minutes his limp form was stretched upon the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
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