1. to make numb or insensitive, especially through cold
2. to make inactive or powerless; to stupefy

Examples

• The freezing wind benumbed his fingers.
• Cold water can benumb your hands within minutes.
• The shock of the news seemed to benumb her completely.
• Fear benumbed his ability to think clearly.
• The medication will benumb the pain temporarily.
• Grief had benumbed her emotions for weeks.
• The bitter cold benumbed the soldiers’ feet.