Bedumb vs Benumb - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between bedumb and benumb

is that bedumb is to make or render dumb while benumb is to deaden.

(en verb)

To make or render dumb.

*1901 , Herbert Trench, Deirdre wed and other poems - Page 39 :

These make no rustle save Some pine-cone dropt, or murmur that condemns Murmur; bedumb'd with moss that giant nave.

*1902 , Frederick Strange Kolle, Pen lyrics - Page 11 :

Let not the melancholy past / Bedumb your hardened ears; [...]

*1964 , John Holloway, The lion hunt: a pursuit of poetry and reality - Page 18 :

Our disease is not smugness, but the anxiety that bedumbs the singer.

(en verb)

To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.

To deaden.