insensate

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She is under general anaesthesia: unconscious, insensate and rendered completely still by a blend of drugs that induce deep sleep, block memory, blunt pain and temporarily paralyse her muscles.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

Speaking personally, the terror-fueled adrenaline dump that would have ensued after I read that very first “Do not answer” would have reduced me to an insensate lump.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024

Supreme Court, have maintained that the use of midazolam as the first in a three-drug protocol is likely to render an inmate insensate to pain.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2022

But this weekend has illustrated both the long and short-term threat of this insensate attitude.

From Salon • Aug. 30, 2021

She crawls to an edge inside herself, longs to be insensate, a slab of brick.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García