benumb

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.

   “[…] the sayd Phillip […] in the same his pilgrimage was stricken with such colde, that he fell into a palsey, and was benumbed of the right side of his body.”

2. fiil To deaden, dull (the mind, faculties, etc.).

   “[…] If this law Of nature be corrupted through affection, And that great minds, of partial indulgence To their benumbed wills, resist the same, There is a law in each well-order’d nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.”