numb
ਸੁੰਨ
definition
verb
the cold had numbed her senses
deprive of feeling or responsiveness.
adjective
my feet were numb with cold
deprived of the power of sensation.
example
I could feel the cold starting to 'numb' my ears and cheeks, and a few stray rainspecks hit my skin.
The various band members found different ways to 'numb' the pain.
Perhaps, though, they were just drinking to 'numb' the pain of being rich and famous.
Anna came in saying that she felt emotionally 'numb' .
So tonight we all get to sit through a really long and boring event, stifling yawns and clapping dutifully as our bums go 'numb' on hard wooden chairs.
People are able to deceive themselves and 'numb' their pain through denial.
But now that his marriage has broken up, he feels 'numb' again.
I just then began to finally feel that I was freezing; the 'numb' feeling must have worn away.
Many use drugs or alcohol in an attempt to 'numb' their pain.
His narration is intrusive and surplus to requirements but mercifully his lips soon go 'numb' with the cold and he has to stop for a while.
She was in school in Norway - where her father Peter was working in the oil industry - when her hand started to feel 'numb' while she was writing.
Putting ice on your heel or rolling your foot over a can of frozen juice will 'numb' the pain, he says.
He told the police in interview that it would 'numb' the pain at the time but afterwards it would be ‘bad, really bad’.
McKeown says he felt 'numb' when the verdict came through.
The need to 'numb' the pain of their existence is understood.
Insiders worry that the troubled star may turn his back on his recovery and hit the drugs to 'numb' his pain over the end of the two-month relationship.
He tried to move his left leg, to free it from the snow, but it was too tightly wedged, and beginning to go 'numb' with cold.
The effect of the brew was to stupefy the convict to the point of pseudo-coma and to 'numb' his physical sensations.
I still felt 'numb' and unfeeling, as if nothing that was happening was real.
He reached to grab the rifle but could not because his forearm felt 'numb' and dead.
Those stuck behind the police are arrested and dragged away in plastic ziplock handcuffs that hurt like hell and make your hands go 'numb' .
Only when I emerge, exhausted, on the far side do I realise I've been gripping my handlebars so hard, my fingers have gone 'numb' .
He woke 'numb' and cold, inside a carved hole in the rock.
The cafe owner comments that he's relieved that crack isn't available in Nablus - he thinks people would turn to it to 'numb' their pain.
As it was the dozen tries that Boroughmuir scored in the first half was enough to 'numb' the senses of even the most fanatical supporter.
She drank three small glasses of hard liquor first to 'numb' the pain, he said.
I then begin to feel 'numb' , but this side-effect is temporary.
You're standing beside a beer cooler on the bank of a frozen Siberian river, and your nose is 'numb' with cold.
I awoke to find this 'numb' sensation in my left arm, and a horrible headache.
Laughing gas is used by doctors and dentists as an anaesthetic or analgesic to 'numb' pain, sedate and allay anxiety.
Credits: Google Translate
