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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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  1. a. To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.
  2. v. make numb or insensitive
  3. To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.
  4. To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; tostupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.
  5. v:100 v make numb or insensitive