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numb

2 verb
     
numb2 [transitive]
1 to make someone unable to feel pain or feel things they are touching:
The cold had numbed her fingers.
the numbing effect of the drug
2 to make someone unable to think, feel, or react in a normal way:
He was numbed by the shock of his wife's death.
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