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# benumbed

«benumbed» in Mova's school dictionary: **Made numb, so that a person cannot feel or move properly…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (from benumb: benumb, benumbs, benumbed, benumbing)

### meaning for a pupil

Made numb, so that a person cannot feel or move properly, usually from cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benumbed/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a cold traveller who sits still and cannot feel his hands or feet

### examples

- His fingers were benumbed with cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benumbed/#x1)
- He sat still, benumbed and cold, in the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benumbed/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [I am benumbed and sore crushed; I groan by reason of the moaning of my heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.622/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «benumbed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/benumbed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.