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say it: nuhm
numb is an adjective and verb meaning "lacking sensation". It carries 4 recorded senses.
(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
“passersby were dead to our plea for help”
“numb to the cries for mercy”
so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified
“too numb with fear to move”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for numb come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.