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Meaning of unnumb | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

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

Examples

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

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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