benumb

Definitions


[bɪˈnʌm], (Verb)

Definitions:
- deprive of physical or emotional feeling
(e.g: the flood of images and alerts coming through social networks is benumbing us)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century: from obsolete benome, past participle of benim ‘deprive’, from be- (expressing removal) + Old English niman ‘take’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries