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What does benumb mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.
  2. (transitive) To deaden.
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In these baths he can benumb the torment of the body with which he is encumbered.
The effect of this announcement was to benumb his faculties.
It was during this period that Adah met with one of those sorrows which benumb the sensitive feminine heart.
I therefore invoke the virtues of an education of concern, for concern stirs us whereas conformity and optimism benumb us.
Was it remarkable that happiness should benumb him and rob him of his senses?
Slavery seems to benumb all the faculties except the passions.

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