| Main Entry: | benumb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desensitize |
Synonyms: |
blunt, chill, cumber, daze, deaden, hebetate, numb, stun, stupefy |
| Main Entry: | benumbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | numb |
Synonyms: |
asleep, deadened, insensible, insensitive, unresponsive, wooden |
| Main Entry: | benumbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inactive |
Synonyms: |
boring, dull, dulled, trite, uninterested |
| Main Entry: | blunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make dull |
Synonyms: |
attenuate, benumb, cripple, dampen, deaden, debilitate, desensitize, disable, enfeeble, hebetate, numb, obtund, sap, soften, take the edge off, undermine, water down, weaken |
Antonyms: |
needle, point, sharpen |
| Main Entry: | cold |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chilly, freezing |
Synonyms: |
Siberian, algid, arctic, below freezing, below zero, benumbed, biting, bitter, blasting, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, chill, chilled, cool, crisp, cutting, frigid, frore, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, have goose bumps, hawkish, hiemal, hyperborean, icebox, iced, icy, inclement, intense, keen, nipping, nippy, numbed, numbing, one-dog night, penetrating, piercing, polar, raw, rimy, severe, sharp, shivery, sleety, snappy, snowy, stinging, two-dog night, wintry |
Antonyms: |
hot, warm |
| Main Entry: | daze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confuse, shock |
Synonyms: |
addle, amaze, astonish, astound, befog, befuddle, benumb, bewilder, blind, blur, confound, dazzle, disorder, distract, dizzy, dumbfound, flabbergast, fuddle, mix up, muddle, mystify, numb, overpower, overwhelm, paralyze, perplex, petrify, puzzle, rock, stagger, startle, stun, stupefy, surprise |
Antonyms: |
expect |
| Main Entry: | deaden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, muffle, quiet |
Synonyms: |
KO, abate, alleviate, anesthetize, benumb, blunt, check, chloroform, consume, cushion, damp, dampen, depress, deprive, desensitize, destroy, devitalize, dim, dope, drown, dull, etherize, exhaust, freeze, frustrate, gas, hush, impair, incapacitate, injure, knock out, lay out, lessen, mute, numb, paralyze, put out of order, put to sleep, quieten, reduce, repress, retard, slow, smother, soften, stifle, stun, stupefy, suppress, tire, tone down, unnerve, weaken |
Antonyms: |
animate, build, enliven, increase, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | desensitize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dull |
Synonyms: |
anesthetize, benumb, deaden, make inactive, make less sensitive, numb, render insensible |
| Main Entry: | drug |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put under influence of medication |
Synonyms: |
analgize, anesthetize, benumb, blunt, deaden, desensitize, dope up, dope*, dose, dose up, fix, hit, knock out, medicate, narcotize, numb, poison, relax, sedate, stupefy, treat |
| Main Entry: | drugged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | under the influence of medication |
Synonyms: |
benumbed, blown away, coked, comatose, dazed, doped, dopey, floating*, flying*, high*, junked-up, loaded, narcotized, on a trip, out of it, ripped, smashed, spaced-out, stoned, strung out, stupefied, unconscious |
Antonyms: |
clean, undrugged |