numb

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

numb UK US [nʌm] adjective [ number numbest ]
1. If a part of your body is numb, you are unable to feel it, usually for a short time
• I had been lying awkwardly and my leg had gone numb.
• My fingers were numb with cold.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Unable to feel anything
2. not able to feel any emotions or to think clearly, because you are so shocked or frightened, etc
• When she first heard the news, she was numb with disbelief.
• Ever since his girlfriend left him he has felt numb.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Not showing or feeling emotions ↑Controlling emotions
 
verb transitive
to make something or someone feel numb
• The extreme cold numbed her face and hands.
• The children are still numbed by their father's death.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Unable to feel anything
Derived: numbly

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dead(p), numb(p), asleep(p), benumbed, benumb, blunt, dull