Numb (?), a. [OE. nume, nome, prop., seized, taken, p. p. of nimen to take, AS. niman, p. p. numen. 7. See Nimble, Nomad, and cf. Benumb.]
1.
Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.
"A stony image, cold and
numb."
Shak.
2.
Producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night.
[Obs.]
Shak.
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Numb, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Numbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Numbing (?).]
To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.
For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand.
Dryden.
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
Tennyson.
© Webster 1913.