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Definition of Benumbs
1. benumb [v] - See also: benumb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benumbs
Literary usage of Benumbs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"It possesses a strongly marked alkaline reaction, and a bitter taste, and acts
in so far peculiarly as it transiently benumbs or almost paralyzes the part ..."
2. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1861)
"It possesses a strongly marked alkaline reaction, and a bitter taste, and acts
in so far peculiarly as it transiently benumbs or almost paralyzes the part ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1861)
"... as it transiently benumbs or almost paralyzes the part of the tongue which it
touches. It bears some resemblance to atropine in its chemical relations, ..."
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