Benumb
Benumb ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Old English binomen, past participle of binimen to take away, Anglo-Saxon beniman; pref. be + niman to take. See Numb, a., and compare Benim.]
To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.
The creeping death benumbed her senses first.