numb

Supporters can numb their pain, at least until they wake up on Sunday morning and find a ticket for the third day of the first Ashes Test is now nothing more than an expensive bookmark.

Despite the name, these aren’t peppers at all but members of the citrus family that trigger a numbing, tingling sensation on the tongue.

From time to time, it’s normal to feel numb to your job.

Part of me wants to tell her how I truly feel about Grandma being gone forever—how I feel numb to almost everything, or how my life feels like a thick, endless fog now.

She no longer complained of nerves; in fact, she seemed numb of all feeling except a kind of stone-faced endurance, like a prisoner waiting to be called to the gallows.