What's the difference between benumb and cold?

Benumb


Definition:

  • (a.) To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.

Example Sentences:

Cold


Definition:

  • (n.) Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
  • (n.) Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
  • (n.) Not pungent or acrid.
  • (n.) Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
  • (n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
  • (n.) Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
  • (n.) Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
  • (n.) Not sensitive; not acute.
  • (n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
  • (n.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
  • (n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth.
  • (n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
  • (n.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
  • (v. i.) To become cold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
  • (2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
  • (3) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
  • (4) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
  • (5) These data suggest that submaximal exercise and cold air exposure enhance nonspecific bronchial reactivity in asthmatic but not in normal subjects.
  • (6) The relationship between cold-insoluble complexes, or cryoglobulins, and renal disease was studied in rabbits with acute serum sickness produced with BSA.
  • (7) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1983, pp.
  • (8) Changes in pain tolerance after administration of differently labelled placebos were studied by measuring the reaction time after a cold stimulus.
  • (9) The quality of liver grafts was evaluated using an original, blood-free isolated perfusion model, after 8 h cold storage, or after 15 min warm ischemia performed prior to harvesting.
  • (10) Lymphocytes of inbred mice immunized with allogenic tumour cells were labelled in vitro or in vivo by 3H-thymidine, washed out and incubated with target cells in the presence of "cold" thymidine.
  • (11) The binding of 125I-labeled core protein to immobilized fibronectin was inhibited by soluble fibronectin and by soluble cold core protein but not by albumin or gelatin.
  • (12) "The government should be doing all it can to put the UK at the forefront of this energy revolution not blowing hot and cold on the issue.
  • (13) 1, diarrhea lowered the piglet's ability to maintain body temperature during the cold test.
  • (14) 3H-uridine or 3H-uracil with cold uridine and uracil, respectively, in amounts corresponding to therapeutic doses of these two pyrimidines as fluoro compounds, were administered with or without microspheres.
  • (15) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
  • (16) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
  • (17) A comparison is made between these results and those of other authors who observed microtubule disaggregation by cold with the electron microscope.
  • (18) Raised cold agglutinin titres were observed in 16 patients with atypical pneumonia.
  • (19) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
  • (20) Detection limits were then calculated for the different sizes of cold spots.

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