Definitions for numbs

numbs numb

Spelling: [nuhm]
IPA: /nʌm/

Numbs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in numbs (bmnsu).

Definitions for numbs

adjective

  1. deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move:
  2. manifesting or resembling numbness:
  3. incapable of action or of feeling emotion; enervated; prostrate:
  4. lacking or deficient in emotion or feeling; indifferent:

verb (used with object)

  1. to make numb.

Origin of numbs

1400-50; late Middle English nome literally, taken, seized, variant of nomen, numen, Old English numen, past participle of niman to take, nim1

Examples for numbs

He was waiting until the first numbness of the shock had passed.

The shock of the first air-raid sirens giving way to a kind of numbness.

As with other GAN kids, numbness is accompanied by an unusual sensitivity.

He had a gone feeling at the pit of the stomach, and suffered from faintness and numbness.

Sometimes only the immediacy of news can break through the numbness.

I am widowed; and the first numbness of the unexpected shock has not left me yet.

Or perhaps from numbness he slipped into a kind of deep sleep.

"It's there you are a fool," she said, moved actually now by his numbness to his own endowment.

He had intermittent periods of numbness in the lower half of his body.

It took a while for the numbness that followed the initial shock to wear off.

Word Value for numbs
Scrable

12

Words with friends

17

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