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as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest an utterly numbing class in statistics

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verb

present participle of numb

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Recent Examples of numbing
Adjective
While traditional malatang broth is made from bone broth and is spicy and numbing, several places also offer vegetarian broths and non-spicy broths. Momo Chang, SFChronicle.com, 26 June 2020 Case and death numbers remain stuck on a numbing, tragic plateau that is tilting only slightly downward. BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2020
Verb
Over the course of two sessions that lasted two hours each, Velez experienced pain that numbing couldn't hide. Michelle Lee, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025 There’s trendy hot pot and face-numbing Sichuan spots, as well as relative newcomers like the excellent Thai spot Zaab Zaab. Cathy Erway, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for numbing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for numbing
Adjective
  • Farming takes so long and is so boring, some of us said.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The Clark County Fire Department said that tunnel boring operations had been temporarily halted at the site pending an ongoing accident investigation.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • While adults die in cold weather, their eggs can survive freezing temperatures until the return of spring.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The set comes with six lights that are built to withstand year-round weather conditions, including rain and freezing temperatures.
    Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The confirmation came just two days before the Fed is expected to vote on reducing its key interest rate.
    Adeola Adeosun Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Every action counts, whether reducing HFCs, investing in sustainable cooling, or holding governments accountable for climate commitments.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Without a strict hierarchy or single decision-maker, our process can sometimes be slow, messy, or even tiring.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The film is a mess, opaque in its argument and tiring in its effortful weirdness, and yet in its best moments has a hypnotic pull.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And these cars tend to be driven in fair weather, not on icy roads.
    Josh Max, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Just last year, scientists announced the news that New Horizons found the Kuiper Belt—a vast outer zone of hundreds of thousands of small, icy worlds beyond the orbit of Neptune—might extend much farther out than previously thought.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In parts of Southeast Asia, totality will begin as the full moon rises, dulling the effect.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Soaring temperatures and drought also sends trees into stress, dulling the experience of fall foliage.
    Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Charlie Kirk didn't deserve to be killed in cold blood.
    Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • After all, who wants to wake up on a crisp winter morning to their feet on cold hardwood?
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Scrolling on one’s phone can be a deadening experience, but here’s someone feeling, or at least pretending to feel, a genuine feeling—even if the abundance of these videos surely numbs us further.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Horror of this scale has the effect of deadening words, making stories of the most unimaginable violence land with a dull thud.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Numbing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numbing. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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