— numbly , adv. — numbness , n.
/num/ , adj. number, numbest , v.
adj.
1. deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move: fingers numb with cold.
2. manifesting or resembling numbness: a numb sensation.
3. incapable of action or of feeling emotion; enervated; prostrate: numb with grief.
4. lacking or deficient in emotion or feeling; indifferent: She was numb to their pleas for mercy.
v.t.
5. to make numb.
[ 1400-50; late ME nome lit., taken, seized, var. of nomen, numen, OE numen, ptp. of niman to take, NIM 1 ]