lacking sensation; my foot is asleep; numb with cold

[ Syn: asleep , benumbed ]

(followed by `to) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; passersby were dead to our plea for help; numb to the cries for mercy

[ Syn: dead ]

so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified; too numb with fear to move'

make numb or insensitive; The shock numbed her senses

[ Syn: benumb , blunt , dull ]