benumb
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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
Was it remarkable that happiness should benumb him and rob him of his senses?
From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
Most popular "Cough-Cures" benumb the upper throat and stop the tickling; smother the symptoms without touching the cause.
From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson
The effect of this announcement was to benumb his faculties.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
The world's forces began to benumb and appall him.
From The Light of the Star A Novel by Hamlin Garland
And a humble suggestion for the icy, northwesterly breeze that so often benumbs New York City.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2013
From the arctics and antarctics which they explore, they bring a refrigeration that benumbs artistic sensibilities.
From Time Magazine Archive
After offering some Soviet advance brass a dinner at his canonry, complete with vintage port, he benumbs them with a conducted tour of his cathedral.
From Time Magazine Archive
What assaults the eye often benumbs the brain, but now all the networks are doing the same.
From Time Magazine Archive
In everything, habit benumbs the imagination; new objects alone quicken it again.
From Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts by Jules Steeg
Steinem spoke explicitly about pushing the women’s movement beyond its initial concerns—essentially, the benumbed, unfulfilled flourishing of white middle-class housewives like her own mother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Its importance may have been underestimated by a benumbed Supreme Court press, understandably focused on what is likely to be the Court’s decision.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2022
As friends and neighbors watch in silent awe, confused, benumbed, the father lowers the launcher and stage-growls the absolutely unnecessary: “It’s a boy.”
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2021
In the course of her Zoom interview with the Guardian, she also claims to feel like one of the characters in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, benumbed by a constant stream of media stimulation.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 6, 2020
She walked out of the tall gate benumbed.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
I attended and can assure you that, contrary to the glamorously edited videos in the show, they were malfunctioning, formless, benumbing ordeals.
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017
Tate Modern's current show Exposed, on surveillance photography, feels intellectually threadbare and aesthetically benumbing.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2010
A superabundance of news has the benumbing effect of mob rule on the senses.
From Time Magazine Archive
A very useful word is 'KOMING' When lack of data gets benumbing.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Clinic had prepared me for it, benumbing my sense of shame, and besides, I was desperate for money.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
