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What does benumb mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.
  2. (transitive) To deaden.
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Slavery seems to benumb all the faculties except the passions.
Was it remarkable that happiness should benumb him and rob him of his senses?
I therefore invoke the virtues of an education of concern, for concern stirs us whereas conformity and optimism benumb us.
How intense must have been the suffering that could so benumb the heart!
He further says they dwarf the body, benumb the brain and weaken character.
At her words he gradually shook off the lethargy which seemed to benumb his senses.

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