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benumbed

/bih-nuhm/US // bɪˈnʌm //UK // (bɪˈnʌm) //

麻木不仁,麻木不仁的,麻木不仁了,麻木不仁的人

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make numb; deprive of sensation: benumbed by cold.
    • : to render inactive; deaden or stupefy.

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Examples

  • I saw this girl, eight or nine years old, all benumbed and nothing but skin and bone.

  • The words were a talisman on the benumbed faculties of Louis; he hastened forward, and threw himself into the carriage.

  • The rest toiled on through swamps and mire, half-starved and benumbed with cold.

  • The Thtre Franais, recently benumbed as with the quiet of the grave, became all at once a tumultuous battlefield.

  • The worst effects come last, when the brain is too benumbed to judge fairly of their harm.