numb

感覚のない、しびれた

体の一部で、触れられた感覚や痛み、温度を感じられない。

やさしい英語で： Unable to feel touch, pain, or temperature in a part of your body.

• My fingers are numb.
• His leg went numb after he sat on it.
• Is your mouth still numb from the dentist's injection?

使い方： numb with something (My feet were numb with cold.); go numb (Her hand went numb after the injection.)

類義語： insensitive, without feeling

よく使う表現： numb fingers, go numb, numb with cold

感情が麻痺した、呆然とした

つらい体験などで感情がわかず、普段どおりに反応できない。

やさしい英語で： Unable to feel emotions or react normally, often because of a terrible experience.

• I felt numb after the news.
• She was numb with shock when the police arrived.
• Months of worry had left him emotionally numb.

使い方： numb with something (They stood numb with grief after hearing the news.)

類義語： unfeeling, stunned

よく使う表現： feel numb, numb with shock, emotionally numb

感覚を麻痺させる、しびれさせる

体の一部の感覚をなくす、または感情的な反応をできなくする。

やさしい英語で： To make a body part unable to feel, or make someone unable to react emotionally.

• The cold numbed my hands.
• The dentist will numb your mouth before starting.
• The terrible news numbed her for several hours.

類義語： deaden, anesthetize

よく使う表現： numb the skin, numb someone's mouth, numb someone's fingers

和らげる、鈍らせる

痛みや強い感情を弱める。

やさしい英語で： To make pain or a strong feeling less powerful.

• The medicine numbed the pain.
• He drank to numb his grief.
• Keeping busy helped numb her feelings of loneliness.

類義語： dull, deaden, blunt

反対語： intensify, heighten

よく使う表現： numb the pain, numb someone's grief, numb a feeling