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numb out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To make oneself numb, especially emotionally.
    • Because in childhood there is no opportunity to express this pain in a way that helps a survivor heal, s/he learns to numb out by necessity. Of course, different people numb out in different ways. The survivors I interviewed became alcoholics and drug addicts, some ate compulsively, […] 1991 December 8, Liz Galst, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 9:
  2. (transitive) To block or alleviate (pain, etc.) by inducing numbness.

Forms

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numbing out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
numbed out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
numbed out Tense=Past lexicographic
numbs out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic