This numbed pattern can be disrupted by rage-driven reenactments directed at others or self-destructively.
In order to cryoablate a tumor, it is located by ultrasound and the overlying skin numbed with a local anesthetic.
Alternatively, people hardened by war or personal crisis can at times appear 'numbed' or in shock.
It is very easy to be numbed by statistical correlations.
He may well be so numbed by the continuation of this near-30-years war that he will welcome whoever brings peace.
Throughout the world we have constant conferences, international squabbles and local wars, and these things have numbed our senses.
The minds of many of these young offenders appear to have been numbed by greed and indifference to violence.
We are to some extent being numbed into insensibility on the dollar question.
