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numbed

/nuhm/US // nʌm //UK // (nʌm) //

麻木不仁,麻木不仁的,麻木的,麻木不仁的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    numb·er, numb·est.

    • : deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move: fingers numb with cold.
    • : manifesting or resembling numbness: a numb sensation.
    • : incapable of action or of feeling emotion; enervated; prostrate: numb with grief.
    • : lacking or deficient in emotion or feeling; indifferent: She was numb to their pleas for mercy.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make numb.

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Examples

  • Although I feel more numb than overwhelmed this year, I am grateful for the simplicity of this dish.

  • The technical distinction is mind-numbing to everyone but securities lawyers, but has some important implications.

  • Last winter, JaMarcus Crews forced his feet, however numb, to walk a paved public track in the town of Centreville, Alabama, until his calves cramped and sweat bloomed across his T-shirt.

  • They’re exactly what I want to keep my legs from going numb while cooking dinner on late-fall camping trips.

  • To keep the blood flow going, she releases saliva from the hypopharynx, which contains a tranquilizer to numb sensation.

  • Have I got shot up with painkillers and Xylocaine and different things to numb areas so I can play?

  • As a person in Iraq, you learn from an early age how to become “lifeless” – absolutely numb with no feelings whatsoever.

  • But a fleeting impression suggests that rap has a tendency rather to numb as, for all I know, narcotics might.

  • I became numb to the barrage of smells: citrus disinfectants, burning trash, sewage, sweat, and diesel.

  • Neubauer says that she was numb and disoriented and scared to talk to the police.

  • When she thought that he was there at hand, waiting for her, she grew numb with the intoxication of expectancy.

  • Her soul was numb, her courage seemed dead, and little care had she in that hour of what might betide her now.

  • As they sat by the ashes, numb with the cold, all of a sudden a new warmth filled the lodge.

  • No, thank ye—I don't want to go so near yet; my feet's all numb an' they allays hurt so when they warms up fast.

  • The days that followed were not unhappy for me; and Patricia appeared to be contented in a numb sort of way.