Definition of "benumbs" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of benumb. (verb)

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• "This undermines the importance of exposition, persuasion, and pleasure in learning; it "benumbs ... [the] imagination and stupefies ... [the] memory""
• "Phenomenological descriptions, if felicitous, foreground things as they are experienced in the everyday world we inhabit, the real world in which we move and have our being, the world which fascinates and benumbs us."
• "        Every delight, all heart's pleasure it wholly benumbs."