benumbs 

  1. 動詞
benumb第三者單數現在式:
及物動詞:
使...(人)失去感覺
使...(人、身體部位等)麻木
使...(人、身體部位等)僵冷
使...(人)遲鈍
使...(人)呆滯

    同義字詞
blunt,cauterize,damp,dampen,deaden,dull,numb

例句

  1. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.
  2. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, stinging all the sensibilities to a keener life; to another as the blow of a bludgeon, which in crushing benumbs .
  3. Hence few individuals are daily wrought up to that excessive excitement in view of suffering, which, in its reaction, finally benumbs the heart and chills the sympathies.
  4. The horrors of trench warfare and of the slaughter without limits of the First War are by now so familiar to the modern reader that further recounting merely benumbs the mind.
  5. The silence which benumbs or strains the sense Fulfils with awe the soul's despair unweeping: Myriads of habitants are ever sleeping, Or dead, or fled from nameless pestilence!