unnumb

present singular third person unnumbs · participle present unnumbing · participle past unnumbed · past unnumbed

1. To cause not to be numb, to relieve of numbness.

   I was now an invited contributor to art shows in the East. Sympathetic criticisms were unnumbing me; I desired to paint again.

   1944, Emily Carr, “Art and the House”, in The House of All Sorts

   1 more example

   2013, Steve Ercolani, “Baseball League Creates ‘Islands’ of Refuge for Camden Kids,” npr.org, 16 July, 2013, “If that had happened in your community, everything [would have] stopped,” he says. “This says two things about these kids: One, they’re resilient, because we’re back to baseball. But two, some part of them is numb. And so we’re going to try and use baseball to unnumb that.”