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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And then my number is thirteen and Josie Pye says it’s so unlucky.
THE world is so full of a number of things,
(Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.) However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high.
“What a number of cucumber-frames there must be!” thought Alice.
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