Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb benumb

1 sense of benumb

Sense 1
numb, benumb, blunt, dull -- (make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses")
       => desensitize, desensitise -- (cause not to be sensitive; "The war desensitized many soldiers"; "The photographic plate was desensitized")