numbing


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Synonyms for numbing

deadening

stupefying

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Words related to numbing

causing numbness or insensitivity

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By inserting the needle into the nerve and then using the syringe to inject the numbing solution, Gittleman said the dentist essentially caused the nerve to blow up under pressure.
You may not care about yourself right now, but look after your health and try not to fall into the trap of numbing the pain with alcohol.
The students were asked to design and make a low-cost, easy-to-use numbing system that would be compatible with existing hypodermic syringes.
Studies have found that various PTSD symptom clusters are negatively associated with quality of life [7,23], perhaps most notably the PTSD numbing symptom cluster [9,23-24], identified in the emotional numbing four-factor structure [25] and later incorporated into the structure of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-5 diagnostic criteria for PTSD [26].
Once they shoot your gums full of local numbing and your lips droop and sag, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell seem downright brilliant.
This numbing effect is natural, but it must be controlled if we are going to survive and to thrive in the future.
These films are delivered with heart and eloquently state the case for ecologic balance and environmental justice without trivializing the subject with numbing special effects or things blowing up.
There's no numbing Spanish midfielder Xavi's pain, however.
PTSD includes symptoms that develop owing to experiencing intense fear, helplessness, or horror, which, in turn, often can lead to reexperiencing the traumatic event, avoiding situations associated with it (even if not experienced at the time the event occurred), and "numbing" of the arousal response.
He told reporters: ``At that moment it was numbing. ..I couldn't feel anything.''
In a time when art gets subjected to the same numbing cost analyses as IKEA shelving units, a little death homeopathically injected into the system might be just what our culture needs.--JS
Among the numbing profusion of reports and commemorations on radio and television, in newspapers and magazines, and other formats was a short article in the June PMMI Reports newsletter.
There are also clues about the logic of production, about how components can be produced, transported and put together, and how the numbing effects of repetition can be avoided.
Depression, anxiety, feelings of guilt and emotional numbing or "flatness" are often present as well.
And so on, from crippling anxiety and crying spells to social numbing, paralyzing flashbacks, and violent outbursts.