| I found the only thing that numbed the pain was whisky, so I began drinking a bottle a day. |
| Set inside a cartoonlike house, the works show Brown standing or sitting with the zombielike cool of a numbed survivor. |
| Are their senses numbed by visual culture, we wonder, or are they simply getting the programmes they deserve? |
| The alcohol helped, dulled his memories and finally numbed them, as it always did. |
| For example, the arm can be numbed with an injection into the upper arm or armpit to allow a broken wrist to be treated. |
| The mouth and throat are numbed up or frozen with a local anesthetic until all cough and gag reflexes are gone. |
