| benumb | (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: blunt, dull, numb |
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| breadcrumb | (noun) crumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickening | - |
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| crumb | (noun) small piece of e.g. bread or cake | - |
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| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
| (noun) a very small quantity of something | - |
| (verb) remove crumbs from | - |
| (verb) break into crumbs | - |
| (verb) coat with bread crumbs | - |
| dumb | (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, obtuse, slow |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness | Synonyms: mute, silent |
| (adjective) temporarily incapable of speaking | Synonyms: speechless |
| (adjective) lacking the power of human speech | - |
| numb | (adjective) so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified | - |
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| (adjective) lacking sensation | Synonyms: asleep, benumbed |
| (adjective) (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive | Synonyms: dead |
| (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: benumb, blunt, dull |
| plumb | (adjective) exactly vertical | - |
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| (noun) the metal bob of a plumb line | Synonyms: plumb bob, plummet |
| (adverb) conforming to the direction of a plumb line | - |
| (adverb) exactly | Synonyms: plum |
| (adverb) completely; used as intensifiers | Synonyms: clean, plum |
| (verb) adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical | - |
| (verb) measure the depth of something | - |
| (verb) examine thoroughly and in great depth | - |
| (verb) weight with lead | - |
| recumb | (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recline, repose |
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| rhumb | (noun) a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction | Synonyms: loxodrome, rhumb line |
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| succumb | (verb) consent reluctantly | Synonyms: buckle under, give in, knuckle under, yield |
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| (verb) be fatally overwhelmed | Synonyms: yield |
| thumb | (noun) the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb | - |
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| (noun) a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse | Synonyms: ovolo, quarter round |
| (noun) the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb | Synonyms: pollex |
| (verb) feel or handle with the fingers | Synonyms: finger |
| (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitch, hitchhike |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riff, riffle |