benumb

Example Sentences

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Invention is kept alive, and the mind is not suffered to fall into that drowsy stupidity, which, in a civilized society, seems to benumb the understanding of the people….

From Forbes • Aug. 26, 2014

There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

Their effect was to benumb every faculty, and to prostrate every sense; and, as one thus afflicted, sat poor Fanny Rutherford in a chair, at the window of her shabby apartment.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various

It was during this period that Adah met with one of those sorrows which benumb the sensitive feminine heart.

From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Field, Eugene

The effect of this announcement was to benumb his faculties.

From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles