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

If only one did not have to think during the long periods of uncertainty and ignorance, and could somehow benumb the senses until the hours of darkness had passed!

From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann

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

Men benumb themselves in work, in pleasure, in the foolery of morality, as it is termed.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

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