Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.
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Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.
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Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.
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Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.
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Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.
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Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.
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Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.
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Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.
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The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.
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The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.
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In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.
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To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.
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of Benumb
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Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
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Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…
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Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
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