Numb
Numb verb - To reduce or weaken in strength or feeling.
Spread
Spread verb - To cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people.
Both words in one sentence
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The man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.
Source: Pink Elephants
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