numb

taub, gefühllos

An einer Körperstelle Berührungen, Schmerzen oder Temperaturen nicht spüren können.

In einfachem Englisch: Unable to feel touch, pain, or temperature in a part of your body.

• My fingers are numb.
• His leg went numb after he sat on it.
• Is your mouth still numb from the dentist's injection?

So benutzt man es: numb with something (My feet were numb with cold.); go numb (Her hand went numb after the injection.)

Synonyme: insensitive, without feeling

Häufige Wendungen: numb fingers, go numb, numb with cold

wie betäubt, gefühllos

Ohne Zugang zu eigenen Gefühlen oder normalen Reaktionen, oft nach einem schrecklichen Erlebnis.

In einfachem Englisch: Unable to feel emotions or react normally, often because of a terrible experience.

• I felt numb after the news.
• She was numb with shock when the police arrived.
• Months of worry had left him emotionally numb.

So benutzt man es: numb with something (They stood numb with grief after hearing the news.)

Synonyme: unfeeling, stunned

Häufige Wendungen: feel numb, numb with shock, emotionally numb

betäuben, gefühllos machen

Eine Körperstelle unempfindlich machen oder bewirken, dass jemand emotional nicht mehr reagieren kann.

In einfachem Englisch: To make a body part unable to feel, or make someone unable to react emotionally.

• The cold numbed my hands.
• The dentist will numb your mouth before starting.
• The terrible news numbed her for several hours.

Synonyme: deaden, anesthetize

Häufige Wendungen: numb the skin, numb someone's mouth, numb someone's fingers

dämpfen, lindern

Schmerzen oder ein starkes Gefühl weniger intensiv machen.

In einfachem Englisch: To make pain or a strong feeling less powerful.

• The medicine numbed the pain.
• He drank to numb his grief.
• Keeping busy helped numb her feelings of loneliness.

Synonyme: dull, deaden, blunt

Gegenteile: intensify, heighten

Häufige Wendungen: numb the pain, numb someone's grief, numb a feeling