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numbness

/nuhm/US // nʌm //UK // (nʌm) //

麻木不仁,麻木,麻痹,麻木的

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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

  • A customer can pretty much point anywhere on the menu — numbing mapo tofu, stir-fried greens with garlic, spiced lamb ribs — and hit the jackpot.

  • It’s become so easy after months and months of this to become numb.

  • He has had to wear a brace on his right wrist and his left hand is numb.

  • Just-social friends, over time, can grow numb to each other’s day-to-day.

  • By the time the last train arrived, my back felt broken, and my hands were numb from the cold.

  • This autoimmune disorder, which affects about seven in 10,000 people, causes numbness and pain in the limbs and imbalance walking.

  • As with other GAN kids, numbness is accompanied by an unusual sensitivity.

  • We appraise the legacy of 9/11 through politics and the news, but side effects include numbness.

  • Sometimes only the immediacy of news can break through the numbness.

  • When the details came in about Sandy Hook Elementary School, a shocked numbness set in.

  • There was a vicious aching in his nerves, his muscles were flaccid and unstrung; a numbness was in his brain as well.

  • The nurse hurried forward, and Corydon felt a stinging sensation in her side, and then a delightful numbness crept over her.

  • Tim cried out that he had been bitten, and that he felt an extraordinary numbness in the limb.

  • Numbness and tingling follow its application to the limbs or tongue when it is of good quality.

  • He forced himself to overcome the numbness which his brain cast up to defend itself.