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Numb

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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Afraid 84% connected

Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.

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Afraid 84% connected

Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.

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Insensible 84% connected

Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.

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Insensible 84% connected

Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.

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Insensitive 84% connected

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.

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Insensitive 84% connected

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.

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Numbness 74% connected

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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Numbness 74% connected

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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Asleep 92% connected

In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.

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Benumb 92% connected

To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Benumbed 92% connected

of Benumb

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Blunt 92% connected

Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.

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Dead 92% connected

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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Dull 92% connected

Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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