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Pronounce Numb as N UW M B.

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    Numb phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'numb'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of numb: /numb/
    • Modern IPA representation of numb: /nʊmb/

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    List of meaning for numb

    the decrease or absence of feeling in a body part

    asleep(p), benumbed, numb(adj)

    lacking sensation

    "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold"

    dead(p), numb(p)(adj)

    (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive

    "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"

    numb(verb)

    so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified

    "too numb with fear to move"

    numb, benumb, blunt, dull(verb)

    make numb or insensitive

    "The shock numbed her senses"

    lacking in sensation or feeling

    I've been sitting in the same position for too long and now my feet are numb

    not expressing any emotion

    apparently in shock, he answered the police officer's questions with a numb expression on his face

    not feeling or showing emotion

    years of physical and emotional abuse had rendered the woman numb and withdrawn

    to reduce or weaken in strength or feeling

    wait for the medication to numb your mouth

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    numb in sentence

    1. Downing the frozen yogurt in under two minutes caused a numb sensation in his lips and a strong brain freeze.

    2. First, my fingers began to tingle with direct aches in them before they went numb altogether.

    3. My dentist administered a small dose of novocaine so that it would be numb on the right side of my mouth and not experience any pain.

    4. The observers could tell that the child’s numb leg had been injected with a medical treatment first because the toddler sat happily as the doctor took a biopsy of his skin.

    5. While removing the cancerous spot, my numb skin was cut without me wincing or crying.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term numb

    We locked our apartment when we left. The looters wouldn't have been able to walk in, so they broke the door down, you go in and it's not that you want to cry, it's more that you get silent and numb from everything you see. The pain, it clenches inside you.

    – Valentina Yermakova

    The market has gotten reasonably comfortably numb to this tariff stuff, they are becoming more accustomed to this being a first foray and negotiating tool.

    – Chuck Carlson

    Every time we experience or hear about a traumatic event, we go into stress mode. We might go numb or have an overactive fear response to the perceived threat. Our physiology is triggered to release stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline.

    – Susanne Babbel

    Iluvien-implant is a cylindrical metallic thing that inside it has the steroid that is slowly released, we numb the patient around the eye, we make sure everything is sterile, and then we actually stick a needle in the eye. And the idea of sticking a needle in the eye sounds very scary but the results sort of bring patients back because it works.

    – Szilard Kiss

    You just feel numb to those moments raising a special needs child, you first feel the need to protect and then to overprotect.

    – Darla Meredith

    When I crawled out I was so cold, so I was warming myself near one of the piles that was still smoldering. I could see an arm. I could see nostrils. But I was numb to that by then, the smell is one that will never leave me.

    – Michiko Kiyo-oka

    I kind of shrug and sometimes smile and laugh about it and then I have a secondary reaction, which is to be horrified at my own numb reaction, right ? we have to remind ourselves the President of the United States of America is publicly announcing that people are committing crimes, that they should be in jail.

    – James Comey

    The Japanese market has become numb to its own economy as there were scarier events in the past week in the global market, today is all about a technical rebound.

    – Takuya Takahashi

    The government, armed and terrorist groups continue to kill, maim, rape, torture and take Syria to new lows that seemed unimaginable a few years ago, people have become numb to figures that should, every day, shock our collective conscience.

    – Valerie Amos

    [ I was trying to escape from ] the pain, the misery. The stress. The pressure. You name it. I was just trying to escape. That was my escape route. Not a healthy choice, but it was mainly to numb myself … The mere fact of seeing all the dead bodies, going to autopsies and doing the death notifications during the wee hours of the morning. Oscar-winning actor Actor Haing Ngor. who survived the savage horrors of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, was shot to death outside Actor Haing Ngor apartment. ( Oxygen).

    – John Garcia

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