as in numb
lacking in sensation or feeling
numbed fingers that needed warming by the fire
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as in dulled
to reduce or weaken in strength or feeling
wait for the medication to numb your mouth
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Recent Examples of numbed
Rebecca Schneid, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Ingber also notes the numbed response to these strikes from much of the American public, something that, in part, may come from the routine nature of these drone strikes as something that the nation has become desensitized to dropping bombs on enemies.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
At the urgent care unit, the area was numbed and a small incision was made.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for numbed
Adjective
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Like, like my legs are going numb.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
7 Jan. 2026
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On my knees, my hands zip-tied behind me, my fingers and feet quickly grew numb.—
Emily Wilder,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Verb
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That setback hasn’t dulled the second-year quarterback’s respect for Allen.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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Firing Alonso, just eight months after appointing him to bring a fresh modern approach to the team, might have dulled some of the pain that Perez and other Madridistas were feeling after regular blows through this season, with Sunday’s Supercopa 3-2 final defeat by Barcelona the latest.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Her 9-year-old sister, Mary Katherine Smart, pretended to be asleep as Mitchell threatened her older sister with a knife.—
Chris Boyette,
CNN Money,
21 Jan. 2026
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Court records reviewed by the station show Pollion had been asleep in the train car for nearly an hour without interacting with Thurman, and prosecutors said the men did not know each other.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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The number of charges for her webs has been reduced by one at all levels, and Incapacitating Bite can no longer be applied by illusions.—
Mike Stubbs,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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In a video shown at the event, Furmencio Quiroz recalled leaving with his family, his children fearful because the power had gone out, thinking they would be gone for a short time, but eventually returning to their home reduced to ashes.—
Sierra van der Brug,
Daily News,
21 Jan. 2026
Verb
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But even those findings haven’t blunted the video’s explosive impact.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
5 Jan. 2026
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Some of those efforts have been blunted because schools are funded by property taxes, and some of them just don’t have the revenue to pay for these add-ons without federal support.—
Sheneka Williams,
The Conversation,
1 Dec. 2025
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In the two weeks since the Justice Department failed to fully meet a legal deadline to release its expansive tranche of files on Jeffrey Epstein, old conspiracy theories about his life and death have subsided and new ones have taken shape.—
Stephen Fowler,
NPR,
2 Jan. 2026
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As entheogenic effects subsided, the digital-age healer pulled out her iPhone and showed me photos from her recent trip home.—
María Cristina Lalonde,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Dec. 2025
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As the urgency of the pandemic waned and booster uptake diminished, Moderna’s key revenue source disappeared.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Hada Labo Tokyo Anti-Aging Hydrator The Hada Labo Tokyo Anti-Aging Hydrator is a fragrance-free face moisturizer with myriad benefits, including plumper skin, fewer fine lines, and diminished dryness.—
Sophie Wirt,
InStyle,
21 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Current models of super-Eddington accretion predict that these features should be weakened or absent when growth becomes so extreme.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Jan. 2026
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Trump took it a step further in December, with an executive order that further weakened state-level guardrails for AI development.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Numbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numbed. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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