Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of benumbing; the state of being benumbed; torpor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor.
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- noun The act of
benumbing , or state of beingbenumbed ;torpor .
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Examples
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The pain was electric and compact, reducing everything to its own sort of benumbment, making the world beyond my head seem small and dazed.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The pain was electric and compact, reducing everything to its own sort of benumbment, making the world beyond my head seem small and dazed.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The pain was electric and compact, reducing everything to its own sort of benumbment, making the world beyond my head seem small and dazed.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Physical exhaustion and the resulting benumbment of a mind that depended much on sleep probably are the basic explanation for Jackson's inability to meet the demands of the campaign.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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Physical exhaustion and the resulting benumbment of a mind that depended much on sleep probably are the basic explanation for Jackson's inability to meet the demands of the campaign.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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And if we are to have this fine scent for the things of the King's gardens, we shall have to get rid of all our benumbment.
The Friend on the Road and Other Studies in the Gospels 1817-1893 1922
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Relaxation in trifles is often the beginning of moral benumbment.
The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910
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The dying lose correspondence after correspondence; nerve after nerve and sense after sense collapse; communications are slowly broken; and by gradual paralysis and benumbment all correspondences end.
The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910
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It is the proof of our own benumbment if we do not feel that such accusations resulted in spiritual crucifixion.
The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910
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The hammer of the daily experience hits the same place at every moment, until life settles down into a benumbment which has no vision and no hope.
The Silver Lining: Messages of Hope and Cheer 1817-1893 1907
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