benumb

Example Sentences

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Invention is kept alive, and the mind is not suffered to fall into that drowsy stupidity, which, in a civilized society, seems to benumb the understanding of the people….

From Forbes • Aug. 26, 2014

It was during this period that Adah met with one of those sorrows which benumb the sensitive feminine heart.

From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Field, Eugene

Did not the chill Of age, perhaps of death, benumb my limbs, My watchful feet, accustomed to the path, Had led me to the spot.

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Sargant, Jane Alice

Put a tight bandage on the limb above the scar of the old wound to benumb the pained tendon, however long the wound may have been healed.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

A lethargy seemed to take hold of her and benumb her with an ever greater fear.

From The Comedienne by Obecny, Edmund