Benumbed Synonyms

Lacking responsiveness or alertness
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. numb
  2. dull
  3. insensible
  4. insensitive
  5. asleep
  6. stuporous
  7. torpid
  8. unresponsive
  9. wooden
To render helpless, as by emotion
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stupefied
  2. withered
  3. paralyzed
  4. stunned
  5. numbed
  6. petrified
  7. dulled
To dull the senses, as with a heavy blow, a shock, or fatigue
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stupefied
  2. stunned
  3. mazed
  4. dazed
  5. numbed
  6. desensitized
  7. deadened
  8. cumbered
  9. chilled
  10. bemused
  11. blunted
Make numb or insensitive
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. numbed
  2. dulled
  3. desensitized
  4. blunted
  5. deadened
Having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dulled

Benumbed Sentence Examples

  • The condition is unassociated with pain, for the reason that the nerves are benumbed.

  • He did nothing himself and benumbed his followers.

  • I am so benumbed that I cannot put forth a hand to take them!

  • The earth seemed benumbed by his icy touch, and the very spirits of the trees had withdrawn to their roots, and there, curled up in the dark, lay fast asleep.

  • But that view which admits a life of God that is not benumbed in an unchangeable sameness will be able to understand his eternal co-working as a variable quantity, the transforming influence of which comes forth at particular moments and attests that the course of nature is not shut up within itself.

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