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numbing

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Verb

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numbing

  1. present participle and gerund of numb

Noun

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numbing

  1. An act by which something is numbed.
    • 2011, Robert Jay Lifton, Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 130:
      The numbing of hibakusha reflected a shattering of the psychic forms of the self.

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Adjective

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numbing (comparative more numbing, superlative most numbing)

  1. That numbs.
    a numbing pain

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