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numbed

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verb

past tense of numb

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for numbed
Adjective
  • Having weathered so many punches heretofore, the viewer is more likely to be numb than moved.
    Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • During Covid, the world felt numb and dystopian.
    Kim Gordon, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Even when the Dodgers find a glimmer, it has been dulled rather quickly.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • My sleep was fractured, my health declined, my decisions dulled, and my confidence wavered.
    Daisy Auger-Domínguez, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Downstairs, at the other end of the house, the kids were asleep in their beds, and Lacey was all the way across town in the hospital with their new brother.
    T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • While most people are fast asleep, one mother is already up and about—and her unusual morning schedule has gone viral on Instagram.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Among other policy changes, the bill brought back 2017 tax cuts, increased funding for deportation efforts and reduced who is eligible for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
    Avalon Hester, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
  • However, the length of time the computer takes to respond is within the designer's control, and its perception can be reduced by giving prompt and accurate feedback, even if the operation's actual execution time is longer.
    Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The phasing in of the wage increase seems to have blunted the referendum effort, acknowledged San Diego County Lodging Association Board Chairman Robert Gleason.
    Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The very tool meant to sharpen medical practice had perhaps blunted it.
    Murali Doraiswamy, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Guiducci arrives at a moment when some of that anger has subsided, and the punch-drunk culture seems counterintuitively eager to escape into nostalgia and tastemaking, splashy profiles, and — just sometimes — confrontational journalism.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Employees said the mold problem still hadn’t subsided as of early this year.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Even if military victory in the conventional sense remains uncertain, Russia has been diminished in ways that extend far beyond the battlefield.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The result can mean fatigue, irritability and diminished mental focus for the individual tasked with working in the heat.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Childhood illnesses had severely weakened her own heart.
    Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Since then, the legal safeguards against such encounters have weakened.
    Sydney Barragan, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
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“Numbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numbed. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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