numb (
http://definr.com/numb)
adj 1: lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"
[syn:
asleep(p),
benumbed]
2: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help";
"numb to the cries for mercy" [syn:
dead(p),
numb(p)]
3: so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed
with terror; "petrified with fear"; "she was petrified by
the eerie sound"; "too numb with fear to move" [syn:
petrified]
v : make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
[syn:
benumb,
blunt,
dull]