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[ adjective ] causing numbness or insensitivity

Examples

"the numbing effect of grief"

Used in print

(Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)

And_then there was a numbing blow to the heart , and another gut flattening blow to the stomach .

(T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)

A terrible , numbing sense of futility swept_over him .

Related terms

desensitizing

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