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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb numb which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

numb
  1. Without the power of sensation and motion or feeling; insensible.
  2. Not able to react, surprised, shocked.
  3. Causing numbness.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. benumbed, deadened, numbed, insensible, dead, insensate, insensitive, senseless, stupefied, unfeeling, desensitised, desensitized, frozen, immobilised, immobilized, paralysed, paralyzed, torpid, anaesthetized, asleep, dazed, stunned, drugged, torpefied, anaesthetised, anesthetized, chilled, comatose, insentient, petrified, sensationless, unconscious, without feeling, deprived of sensation, in shock, knocked out, inert, cold, out cold, passed out, out, spark out, dead to the world, out for the count, soporose, incapacitated, soporous, crippled, blacked out, out of it … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “I still felt numb, as if nothing that was happening was real.”
      “Persons who become numb to the suffering of others are perilously close to descending into brutality.”
      “She had not uttered another word but sat with a numb expression on her face.”
numby
  1. (obsolete) Somewhat numb; numbed.
numbest
  1. superlative form of numb: most numb
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deadest, most benumbed, most insensible, most insensate, most insensitive, most senseless, most unfeeling, most frozen, most torpid, most asleep, most dazed, most stunned, most drugged, most anesthetized, most chilled, most comatose, most insentient, most petrified, most unconscious, stolidest, most emotionless, most apathetic, most impassive, most unemotional, most detached, most impassible, most indifferent, most passionless, most phlegmatic, most stoic, most stoical, most affectless, most disinterested, most incurious, most undemonstrative, most unconcerned, most uncurious, most uninterested, most cold-blooded, blankest, emptiest, most catatonic, most deadpan, most expressionless, most vacant, most inexpressive, most remote … more
numbed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of numb
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deadened, benumbed, dulled, stunned, desensitised, desensitized, froze, frozen, immobilised, immobilized, paralysed, paralyzed, stupefied, dazed, anaesthetized, anaesthetised, anesthetized, blunted, cauterised, cauterized, chilled, damped, dampened, obtunded, petrified, drugged, drug, torpefied, knocked out, rendered insensitive, deprived of sensation, bored, bore, disinterested, hebetated, stultified, bored rigid, bored stupid, bored stiff, bored to death, bored to tears, grew weary on, grown weary on, put off, bored out of one's mind, made bored … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I had crouched down in the bow of the boat, and crept cautiously along, holding on to the gunwale with my almost numbed fingers.”
numbing
  1. present participle of numb
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deadening, benumbing, dulling, stunning, desensitising, desensitizing, freezing, immobilising, immobilizing, paralysing, paralyzing, stupefying, dazing, anaesthetizing, anaesthetising, anesthetizing, blunting, cauterising, cauterizing, chilling, chillin, damping, dampening, obtunding, petrifying, drugging, torpefying, knocking out, rendering insensitive, depriving of sensation, boring, disinteresting, hebetating, stultifying, boring rigid, boring stupid, boring stiff, boring to death, boring to tears, growing weary on, putting off, boring out of one's mind, making bored … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Meanwhile, all of us sat immobile in the numbing cold, with limbs shaking and teeth chattering.”
      “The prime minister had just given us a numbing lecture about infrastructure.”
      “We found that television viewing had a numbing effect on emotional states in our participants.”
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