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insensate

[in-sen-seyt, -sit] / ɪnˈsɛn seɪt, -sɪt /




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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

Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe—his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic jump at the pin-prick.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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