Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
numb .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective causing numbness or insensitivity
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Examples
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Sing, Talk, Hum, times tables – thats usually brain numbing lol – try doing stupidly big numbers lol
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Through the manipulation of language, the forces of death have proven extraordinarily successful in numbing the moral sensitivities of many to the horrors actually taking place.
Pope John Paul II 2009
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Through the manipulation of language, the forces of death have proven extraordinarily successful in numbing the moral sensitivities of many to the horrors actually taking place.
Media 2009
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This was an example of what I (with brain numbing regularity) term a "least worst" option.
Snoop Elsewhere Mate Newmania 2007
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Report Abuse reading the above tells me that amercia is stupid and don't know the real facts. they must park themself in front of fox news 24/7 it called numbing of the brain. that if they have a brain left.
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What’s even more mind-numbing is the writer continues to reference similarly enlightening articles from Men’s Health, including one laugh riot titled “The 50 Things She Wishes You Knew About Her.”
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Lifton may have coined the term "psychic numbing," but his own sensitivity and capacity for empathy remains undiminished.
Greg Mitchell: New Memoir by Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors, Hiroshima -- and Today Greg Mitchell 2011
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Lifton may have coined the term "psychic numbing," but his own sensitivity and capacity for empathy remains undiminished.
Greg Mitchell: New Memoir by Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors, Hiroshima -- and Today Greg Mitchell 2011
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Lifton may have coined the term "psychic numbing," but his own sensitivity and capacity for empathy remains undiminished.
Greg Mitchell: New Memoir by Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors, Hiroshima -- and Today Greg Mitchell 2011
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Lifton may have coined the term "psychic numbing," but his own sensitivity and capacity for empathy remains undiminished.
Greg Mitchell: New Memoir by Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors, Hiroshima -- and Today Greg Mitchell 2011
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