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Numb vs Tobruise - What's the difference?

numb | tobruise |

As verbs the difference between numb and tobruise

is that numb is to cause to become numb while tobruise is (archaic) to bruise up, completely beat or batter; crush; to make numb.

As an adjective numb

is without the power of sensation and motion or feeling; insensible.

numb

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Without the power of sensation and motion or feeling; insensible.
  • Not able to react, surprised, shocked.
  • Causing numbness.
  • * Shakespeare
    • All thin and naked to the numb cold night.

    Antonyms

    * sensible, sensitive

    Derived terms

    * benumb * numbly * numbness * numbnuts

    Related terms

    * numskull

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to become numb.
    • The dentist gave me novocaine to numb my tooth before drilling, thank goodness.

    Synonyms

    * benumb

    tobruise

    English

    Verb

  • (archaic) To bruise up, completely beat or batter; crush; to make numb.
  • *1910 , Edward Hutton, Siena and southern Tuscany :
    • Then he brought the monk all tobruised in a sack to S. Benedict, and anon S. Benedict made upon him the sign of the cross, and blessed him and raised him to life, and sent him to the work again.
  • *1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene :
    • Onely his shield and armour, which there lay, / Though nothing whole, but all tobrusd and broken, [...]