numb

numb
adj
1. sensationless, feelingness, insensate; senseless, insentient, unperceiving; dazed, in shock, anesthetized, drugged, paralyzed.
2. callous, insensitive, thickskinned; unimpressionable, inured, hardened, hard, casehardened; unemotional, apathetic, uninterested, uncaring, insouciant; inattentive, Inf. tuned out, blind or deaf to things, dispassionate; insusceptible, lethargic, spiritless, imperturbable.
3. dull, obtuse, witless, dumb, unreasoning, mindless, addlebrained, Inf. out to lunch; slow-witted, Inf. slow on the uptake, slow to comprehend; insensible, unaware, inappreciative.
v
4. deaden, obtund, hebetate, dull; drug, anesthetize, chloroform, Inf. give a shot, paralyze, stun; torpify, Inf. put to sleep, Inf. put under, hypnotize, mesmerize, stupefy; chill, freeze, glaciate

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