benumb in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for benumb in the English»French Dictionary

I.benumb [Brit bɪˈnʌm, Am bəˈnəm] VB trans

benumb

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II.benumbed ADJ

benumbed lit, fig:

benumbed

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Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Indeed, the impunity on the part of some of these organisations is benumbing.

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Look at the issue of corruption, it is benumbing, overwhelming.

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In the city, that wind eddies through cold streets, across chilled puddles, before benumbing the elderly.

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Taken cumulatively, as a totality, the occurrences are nothing if not benumbing.

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These are but numbers, although they benumb us, or should.

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