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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
benumb/bɪˈnʌm/

▶verb deprive of feeling.

– origin C15: from obs. benome, past part. of benim ‘deprive’, from be- + OE niman ‘take’.

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