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numbing

[ nuhm-ing ]

adjective

  1. causing numbness or insensibility; stupefying:

    the numbing effects of grief; a story repeated with numbing regularity.



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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ԳܳiԲ· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of numbing1

First recorded in 1625–35; numb + -ing 2
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That can produce psychic numbing, the inability or disinclination to feel, which can reach the point of immobilization.

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At this point, they pop up with numbing regularity.

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A season of monotony has played out with a numbing sameness on the interior of UCLA’s defensive line.

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The play dramatizes the modern Kafkaesque hell of automated phone systems that make callers wait ungodly amounts of time, to numbing hold music, before speaking to a scripted agent.

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Two games in, the National League Championship Series has now been transformed into something few thought it would ever be, something that should make Dodger fans knot those blue rags around their numbing fingers.

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