numb
/nʌm/ adjective C1- Physically unable to feel, not having the power of sensation. · fingers numb with cold· legs numb from kneeling
- Emotionally unable to feel or respond in a normal way. · numb with shock; numb with boredom
- Dumb or stupid.
Comparative number · Superlative numbest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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So she chose a number of the Winkies who looked as if they knew the most, and they all started away.
SOME DOGS famished with hunger saw a number of cowhides steeping in a river.
A DOVE shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of young ones which she had hatched.
The larger the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this prison-house.”
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