Definitions
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- adverb in a
benumbing manner
Etymologies
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benumbing + -ly
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Examples
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The clock ticked benumbingly the long hours away; the wind howled, or the wind was still; snow fell, or it was frostily clear; but nothing happened — nothing at all.
Maurice Guest 2003
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But, like all the casuistical virtues, this position had the rigidity of something created to fit a special case; and the result was a fixity of attitude, which spread benumbingly over her whole nature.
The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899
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Once, before the Inn brake was ready to make its evening trip to Wahaska and the railway station, the premonition gripped him so benumbingly that he was sorely tempted.
The Price Francis Lynde 1893
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