The addition of the Sichuan peppercorn, known as ‘huajiao’, in many dishes creates a most sudden numbing sensation in one's mouth.
Among them, nearly 400 beetles that locals called nanisani, a term that refers to the tingling or numbing sensation in the mouth when the beetles and the birds are tasted.
A few minutes later, the bell rang, and instead of the feeling of freedom I usually felt at the end of the day, I felt cold, numbing horror.
I suppressed the cold, numbing feeling that was forming in my abdomen.
Right now, it's a struggle to disrupt the numbing media chatter about miscalculations and mistakes - to insist on acknowledgment of moral culpability.
Derivatives
numbingly
adverbˈnʌmɪŋliˈnəmɪŋli
Annoying, insecure, arrogant, stupid - insert your adjective - people are an unfortunate and often numbingly awful fact of life.
Example sentencesExamples
Back in Oregon, we tended to feel numbingly safe.
Even the shadows of its amazing columns have a numbingly huge quality.
The fresh water against your face is almost numbingly cold.
Definition of numbing in US English:
numbing
adjectiveˈnəmiNGˈnəmɪŋ
Depriving one of feeling or responsiveness.
the numbing effect of alcohol
a numbing defeat
Example sentencesExamples
I suppressed the cold, numbing feeling that was forming in my abdomen.
Right now, it's a struggle to disrupt the numbing media chatter about miscalculations and mistakes - to insist on acknowledgment of moral culpability.
Among them, nearly 400 beetles that locals called nanisani, a term that refers to the tingling or numbing sensation in the mouth when the beetles and the birds are tasted.
The addition of the Sichuan peppercorn, known as ‘huajiao’, in many dishes creates a most sudden numbing sensation in one's mouth.
A few minutes later, the bell rang, and instead of the feeling of freedom I usually felt at the end of the day, I felt cold, numbing horror.