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

There can be nothing so insufferable at a party as one of those people who seem determined to benumb your gayety by their sullen looks and their stiff manners.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de

They had power to benumb every decent feeling in me.

From Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa by Stockley, Cynthia

But we, my love!—doth a like spell benumb Our hearts, our voices?—must we too be dumb?

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

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