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"text": "fingers numb with cold",
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "ḵadir",
"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "خَدِر"
},
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "թմրած"
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "вцепенен"
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"roman": "mámù",
"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "麻木"
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"word": "verkleumd"
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "puutunut"
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "turta"
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"_dis1": "60 38 0 2",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "gourd"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "engourdi"
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"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gašešebuli",
"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "გაშეშებული"
},
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"_dis1": "60 38 0 2",
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"roman": "gapičxebuli",
"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "გაფიჩხებული"
},
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"_dis1": "60 38 0 2",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "taub"
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"_dis1": "60 38 0 2",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "betäubt"
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "gefühllos"
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "starr"
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"roman": "narkoménos",
"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "ναρκωμένος"
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"word": "សំទក់"
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"word": "마비되는"
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"_dis1": "60 38 0 2",
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"note": "with cold and wet conditions",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "بیحس"
},
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"_dis1": "60 38 0 2",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"word": "онеме́лый"
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"_dis1": "60 38 0 2",
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"english": "by lack of blood circulation",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "dormido"
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"_dis1": "60 38 0 2",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"word": "ชา"
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"word": "занімі́лий"
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"word": "سُن"
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"_dis1": "60 38 0 2",
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"text": "numb with shock; numb with boredom"
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"ref": "1915, Nellie McClung, chapter 2, in In Times Like These, Toronto: McLeod & Allen:",
"text": "[…] when we know that hundreds are rendered homeless every day, and countless thousands are killed and wounded, men and boys mowed down like a field of grain, and with as little compunction, we grow a little bit numb to human misery.",
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"ref": "1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, published 1992, Part One, p. 77:",
"text": "[…] seeing the dog—somehow that made me feel again. I’d been too dazed, too numb, to feel the full viciousness of it.",
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{
"ref": "2016, Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time, Random House Canada, Part Three:",
"text": "[…] he submitted […] as a traitor, his mind numb with vodka, submits to a firing squad.",
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"ref": "c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:",
"text": "[…] he did lap me\nEven in his own garments, and gave himself,\nAll thin and naked to the numb cold night.",
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"word": "brain-numbing"
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"word": "numb-handed"
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"ref": "1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, published 1992, Part One, p. 77:",
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"ref": "2016, Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time, Random House Canada, Part Three:",
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"ref": "c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"word": "թմրած"
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"word": "麻木"
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"word": "გაშეშებული"
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"code": "is",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"code": "id",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "intorpidito"
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "無感覚な"
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"code": "km",
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"roman": "srɑyɑŋ",
"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "ស្រយង់"
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"code": "km",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "ស្គឹះ"
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"code": "km",
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"roman": "sɑmtʊək",
"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "សំទក់"
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "mabidoeneun",
"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "마비되는"
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{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "sirr",
"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "سِڕ"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"code": "lv",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"code": "lv",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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{
"code": "mi",
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "mi",
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{
"code": "mi",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
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{
"code": "fa",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "بیحس"
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"code": "fa",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "physically unable to feel",
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "amortecido"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "physically unable to feel",
"word": "dormente"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "es",
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"english": "by cold",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
"english": "by lack of blood circulation",
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{
"code": "es",
"english": "by drugs",
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "vi",
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{
"code": "cs",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "emotionally unable to feel",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "vi",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "numbed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
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"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The dentist gave me novocaine to numb my tooth before drilling, thank goodness.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "When I first heard the news, I was numbed by the shock.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], “The Prologue”, in Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature A2, recto:",
"text": "The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020 April 22, “Letters: Open Access: Not easy for laptops”, in Rail, page 31:",
"text": "But her main concern is the hard seating that numbs the nether regions.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally)."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally)."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "benumb"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
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"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He turned to alcohol to numb his pain.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Grey Woman”, in The Grey Woman and Other Tales, London: Smith, Elder & Co.:",
"text": "[I was] thankful for the pain, which helped to numb my terror.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause (a feeling) to be less intense."
],
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"intense",
"intense"
]
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cause (a feeling) to be less intense."
],
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{
"word": "dull"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1912, Saki, “The Hounds of Fate”, in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, page 219:",
"text": "[…] hunger, fatigue, and despairing hopelessness had numbed his brain […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1927, Hugh Lofting, Doctor Dolittle’s Garden, Part Four, Chapter 6:",
"text": "The noise, the rush of air past our ears, was positively terrific. It actually seemed to numb the senses and make it almost impossible to take in impressions at all.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Cory Doctorow, chapter 13, in Eastern Standard Tribe:",
"text": "[The sofa] exhaled a breath of trapped ancient farts, barf-smell, and antiseptic, the parfum de asylum that gradually numbed my nose to all other scents on the ward.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute."
],
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[
"faculties",
"faculty"
],
[
"acute",
"acute"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute."
],
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{
"word": "dull"
}
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"tags": [
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"English terms with quotations"
],
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"ref": "1918, Lewis R. Freeman, “Wonders of the Teleferica”, in Many Fronts, London: John Murray, page 270:",
"text": "[…] after fumbling with numbing fingers for ten or fifteen minutes, he waved his hand with a gesture of despair […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1919, Arthur Murray Chisholm, chapter 18, in The Land of Strong Men, New York: H.K. Fly:",
"text": "[…] once more his feet began to numb. Again he got down and stamped the circulation going, but as soon as he began to ride again they numbed.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To become numb (especially physically)."
],
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"(intransitive) To become numb (especially physically)."
],
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"intransitive"
]
}
],
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{
"enpr": "nŭm"
},
{
"ipa": "/nʌm/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌm"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vcepenjavam",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "вцепенявам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vkočanjasvam",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "вкочанясвам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "otupit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "znecitlivit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ochromit"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "verdoven"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "in slaap doen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "puuduttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "turruttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "emotionally",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "lamauttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "by cold",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "kohmettaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "engourdir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "endormir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "anesthésier"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "betäuben"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "narkóō",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "ναρκόω"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "intorpidire"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "addormentare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "anestetizzare"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "amorți"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "anestezia"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "adormecer"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to cause to become numb",
"word": "bedöva"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause (a feeling) to be less intense",
"word": "puuduttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause (a feeling) to be less intense",
"word": "turruttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause (a feeling) to be less intense",
"word": "tukahduttaa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "cepenétʹ",
"sense": "to cause (a feeling) to be less intense",
"word": "цепене́ть"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause the mind or senses to be less acute",
"word": "turruttaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become numb physically",
"word": "puutua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become numb physically",
"word": "turtua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "due to cold",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become numb physically",
"word": "kohmettua"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nemétʹ",
"sense": "to become numb physically",
"word": "неме́ть"
}
],
"word": "numb"
}
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