v
(transitive, rare) To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes
adj
(biology, of a cell) functionally incapacitated
v
(transitive) To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.
n
One who, or that which benumbs; a numbing agent
adj
Susceptible to bruising; capable of being bruised.
v
(intransitive) To be numb or benumbed; be stiffened or paralysed with cold or fear
adv
To a desiccated degree; in an extremely dry fashion
adj
Made feeble; weakened.
n
(archaic) increase of irritation or violence, particularly of a fever or disease
n
A growing mutation, usually abnormal.
adj
Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
n
(medicine) An incomplete form or partial symptom of a disease.
adj
Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate.
n
An unnatural or abnormal growth.
adj
(obsolete) Causing numbness.
adj
(obsolete) Somewhat numb; numbed.
n
The sensation of numbness that occurs in a limb when it "falls asleep" due to pressure on a nerve.
v
(transitive, chiefly medicine) To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull.
n
A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; – nearly the same as demulcent.
adj
Relating to or causing obturation
n
A morbid softening of some organ or tissue of the body.
v
(transitive, physiology) To numb again.
adj
Growing stiff or numb.
v
Of one's body or limbs: to become numb or stiff due to cold, lack of movement, etc.
adj
(figuratively) Non-stick, slick.
v
(transitive) To make torpid; to benumb.
v
To fill with torpor; stupefy.
v
(transitive) To relieve of numbness; to restore sensation to.
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