Benumbing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BENUMBING in dictionary:

VERB:
• BENUMB, to make numb
• deprive of physical or emotional feeling

Words related to BENUMBING

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Words that contain BENUMBING

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How to use BENUMBING in a sentence

• The people, when the benumbing force of the surprise was mastered, flew together with one mind, one voice, one impulse.
• But of all terrors there are none, outside a guilty mind, so benumbing as night in the unknown.
• The benumbing influence of his face-to-face fight with poverty and inactivity disappeared.
• Artistic atrophy is benumbing us, we are losing our finer feeling for beauty, the rose is going back to the briar.
• Either we are a people essentially and incurably inferior, or there is something wrong in our training, something benumbing in our atmosphere and circumstances.
• The last of these marches was trying, with the north wind blowing in their teeth, drying up everything and benumbing the men.
• It came to him with the benumbing effect of a blow that his own ambitions had persistently looked beyond the mere money-making results of his scheme.
• His heart was heavy enough still, but the first benumbing shock of his grief and desperation had passed, and his natural courage and common sense were rapidly coming to his aid.
• A leaden weight of shame hung on her, benumbing every other sensation, and she bade him good-bye with hardly a sign of emotion.
• A slow paralysis was benumbing the limbs of the insurrection, and even at the heart its vitality was plainly declining.
• John the Baptist, and was notable by reason of the benumbing of the throat and the pain it caused in the breast and side.
• Bessy, too, was in the clutch of a mute anger which slowly poured its benumbing current around her heart.
• Jack felt a benumbing shock, and dropped his gun, the stock of which had been shivered in his grasp.
• And usually, in addition to lack of use, the deadening, benumbing pressure from a wrong truss was partly responsible for that withered or deadened condition of the muscles.
• He had drifted in the benumbing water so long that had they been delayed for another hour they would have found nothing more than a corpse awaiting them.
• He conceals its vacuity beneath forms of a highly-colored style, an amiable negligence and a facility that is benumbing to thought.
• It was slow to come, but was none the less violent that it had been preceded by the benumbing shock of shame and pride.
• The effect was really benumbing, I breathed with difficulty, and had trouble in holding to the slippery rounds.
• Then something happened which might almost be said to have delighted her if it were not for the strain of benumbing fear that was gripping her.

Similar words containing BENUMB without suffix ing

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