numb out

verb

To make oneself numb, especially emotionally.

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Meanings

verbnumb out (third-person singular simple present numbs out, present participle numbing out, simple past and past participle numbed out)

present singular third person numbs out · participle present numbing out · participle past numbed out · past numbed out

  1. intransitiveTo make oneself numb, especially emotionally.

    Because in childhood there is no opportunity to express this pain in a way that helps a survivor heal, s/he learns to numb out by necessity. Of course, different people numb out in different ways. The survivors I interviewed became alcoholics and drug addicts, some ate compulsively, […]

    1991 December 8, Liz Galst, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 9
  2. transitiveTo block or alleviate (pain, etc.) by inducing numbness.
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APA

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Chicago

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