Numb and Spread

Numb

Numb verb - To reduce or weaken in strength or feeling.

Spread and numb are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spread" instead a verb "Numb".

Nearby Words: numbed, numbing, numbness, numbly

Spread

Spread verb - To cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people.

Numb and spread are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Numb" instead a verb "Spread".

Nearby Words: spreading, spreader

Common collocations

people numb people spread people
terror numb terror spread terror

Both words in one sentence

  • Pink Elephants 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.
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