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numb
English
Etymology
From the past participle of nim (“to take”). Compare German benommen (“dazed, numb”). The final ?b? is a later addition to the spelling; it was never pronounced, and did not appear in the original word.
Pronunciation
- enPR: n?m, IPA(key): /n?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Adjective
numb (comparative number, superlative numbest)
- Physically unable to feel, not having the power of sensation.
- Synonyms: deadened, insensible
- Emotionally unable to feel or respond in a normal way.
- numb with shock; numb with boredom
- 1915, Nellie McClung, In Times Like These, Toronto: McLeod & Allen, Chapter 2,[1]
- […] when we know that hundreds are rendered homeless every day, and countless thousands are killed and wounded, men and boys mowed down like a field of grain, and with as little compunction, we grow a little bit numb to human misery.
- 1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, 1992, Part One, p. 77,[2]
- […] seeing the dog—somehow that made me feel again. I’d been too dazed, too numb, to feel the full viciousness of it.
- 2016, Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time, Random House Canada, Part Three,[3]
- […] he submitted […] as a traitor, his mind numb with vodka, submits to a firing squad.
- Synonym: stunned
- (obsolete) Causing numbness.
- c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act II, Scene 1,[4]
- […] he did lap me
- Even in his own garments, and gave himself,
- All thin and naked to the numb cold night.
- c. 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act II, Scene 1,[4]
Antonyms
- sensible, sensitive
Derived terms
Related terms
- numskull
Translations
Verb
numb (third-person singular simple present numbs, present participle numbing, simple past and past participle numbed)
- (transitive) To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally).
- Synonym: benumb
- (transitive) To cause (a feeling) to be less intense.
- 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Grey Woman” in The Grey Woman and Other Tales, London: Smith, Elder & Co.,[5]
- [I was] thankful for the pain, which helped to numb my terror.
- Synonym: dull
- 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Grey Woman” in The Grey Woman and Other Tales, London: Smith, Elder & Co.,[5]
- (transitive) To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute.
- 1912, Saki, “The Hounds of Fate” in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, p. 219,[6]
- […] hunger, fatigue, and despairing hopelessness had numbed his brain […]
- 1927, Hugh Lofting, Doctor Dolittle’s Garden, Part Four, Chapter 6,[7]
- The noise, the rush of air past our ears, was positively terrific. It actually seemed to numb the senses and make it almost impossible to take in impressions at all.
- 2004, Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, Chapter 13,[8]
- [The sofa] exhaled a breath of trapped ancient farts, barf-smell, and antiseptic, the parfum de asylum that gradually numbed my nose to all other scents on the ward.
- Synonym: dull
- 1912, Saki, “The Hounds of Fate” in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, p. 219,[6]
- (intransitive) To become numb (especially physically).
- 1918, Lewis R. Freeman, Many Fronts, London: John Murray, “Wonders of the Teleferica,” p. 270,[9]
- […] after fumbling with numbing fingers for ten or fifteen minutes, he waved his hand with a gesture of despair […]
- 1919, Arthur Murray Chisholm, The Land of Strong Men, New York: H.K. Fly, Chapter 18,[10]
- […] once more his feet began to numb. Again he got down and stamped the circulation going, but as soon as he began to ride again they numbed.
- 1918, Lewis R. Freeman, Many Fronts, London: John Murray, “Wonders of the Teleferica,” p. 270,[9]
Derived terms
- mind-numbing
Translations
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nim
English
Etymology
From Middle English nimen, from Old English niman (“to take”), from Proto-Germanic *neman? (“to take”), from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to give or take one's due”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian nieme (“to take”), West Frisian nimme (“to take”), Dutch nemen (“to take”), Low German nehmen (“to take”), German nehmen (“to take”), Danish nemme (“to learn, grasp”). Related to numb and nimble.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Verb
nim (third-person singular simple present nims, present participle nimming, simple past nimmed or nam or nom, past participle nimmed or nom or nomen or num)
- (obsolete, transitive) To take or seize.
- 1381, Pegge Cook. Recipes, page 114, quoted in 1962, Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242, in the entry "dorr??, d?r? adj. & n. […] cook":
- For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
- 1547 (original; printed 1870), Andrew Boorde, The First Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, page 122:
- Ich cham a Cornysche man, al[e] che can brew; [...] Nym me a quart of ale, that iche may it of sup.
- 1566–1573 (original; printed 1873), John Partridge, The Hystorie of the Moste Noble Knight Plasidas, and Other Rare Pieces, page 106:
- Then Alfyne to the court Of Syleuma doth come, / And Pandauola in her armes / Her Alfyne hath up num / And kisseth him full ofte […]
- 2017, Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Bloomsbury Publishing (?ISBN), page 155:
- Gryndall carefully sets out the difference between seizing or nimming a bird (an outcome that would constitute a partly successful flight) and taking the bird outright: 'And if your Hawke noume [nim, seize] a foule, and the foule breake from her, she hath discomfited many feathers of the foule, and is broken away: but in kindly speech you shall say, your hawke hath noumed or seased a foule, and not taken it'.
- 1381, Pegge Cook. Recipes, page 114, quoted in 1962, Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242, in the entry "dorr??, d?r? adj. & n. […] cook":
- (obsolete, slang, transitive) To filch, steal.
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1
- They'll question Mars, and, by his look, \ Detect who 'twas that nimm'd a cloak;
- 1785, Hutton, Bran New Wark, I. 305, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:
- Nimming and niftering whativver he can try his fists on.
- 1821, Apuleius, The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius, of Medaura, page 131:
- But while he fell in some brave exploit, you, I suppose, being provident rogues and thieves of discretion, were on the sure lay, pilfering little thefts among the mob, fearfully nimming a cloak or rifling some old woman's bulk of a stock to set up a piece-broker's shop.
- 1824 (edition; original 1790), Nairne, Tales, 37, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:
- They nim a pig, a duck, or fowl.
- 1854, Oliver Oldham, Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader: A Course of Reading, Original and Selected, in Prose and Poetry, Wherein Wit, Humor, and Mirth are Made the Means of Awakening Interest, and Imparting Instructon : for the Use of Schools and Academies, page 110:
- Shall we go nim a horse, Tom,—what dost think? [...] Nim? yes, yes, yes, let's nim with all my heart; I see no harm in nimming, for my part; [...] Were it my lord mayor's hourse—I'd nim it first. [...A horse] they stole, or, as they called it, nimmed, / Just as the twilight all the landscape dimmed. [...] What is most likely, is that both these elves / Were, in like manner, halter-nimmed themselves.
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1
- (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To walk with short, quick strides; trip along.
- 1856, Thompson, Hist. Boston, page 716, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:
- The old lady does nim along.
- 1949, Wilfrid J. Halliday, Arthur Stanley Umpleby, The White Rose Garland of Yorkshire Dialect Verse and Local and Folk-lore Rhymes, quoting Irene Sutcliffe, page 111:
- Ah had set myself doon where the aums meet aboon, / When Jinny jamp oop, and ganned nimming alang.
- 1856, Thompson, Hist. Boston, page 716, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:
Related terms
- benim
- nimble
- nimmer
- numb
Noun
nim (uncountable)
- A game in which players take turns removing objects from heaps.
Derived terms
- nimber
Anagrams
- INM, MIN, Min, NMI, min, min.
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English nim.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nim/, [?nim]
- Rhymes: -im
- Syllabification: nim
Noun
nim
- nim (game)
Declension
Synonyms
- nim-peli
Anagrams
- min
Gothic
Romanization
nim
- Romanization of ????????????
Hausa
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ????? (n?m), from Hindi ??? (n?m).
Noun
nîm m
- neem tree
Livonian
Alternative forms
- ni'm (Courland)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *nimi.
Noun
nim
- name
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?im/
Pronoun
nim (only after a preposition)
- instrumental of wón
- instrumental of wóno
- dative of wóni
Related terms
- (dative of wóni): jim
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n??i??/
Noun
nim
- dative singular of nem
Mutation
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?im/
Etymology 1
Pronoun
nim
- instrumental/locative singular of on
- instrumental/locative singular of ono
See also
- Appendix:Polish pronouns
Etymology 2
Conjunction
nim
- before
- Synonym: zanim
Further reading
- nim in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal, Brazil) IPA(key): /?n?/
- Hyphenation: nim
Etymology 1
From Hindi ??? (n?m), from Sanskrit ????? (nimba).
Noun
nim m (plural nins)
- neem (Azadirachta indica, an evergreen tree of India)
Etymology 2
Blend of não (“no”) +? sim (“yes”). Compare German Jein.
Adverb
nim (not comparable)
- (humorous, neologism) yes and no
Noun
nim m (plural nins)
- (humorous, neologism) yes and no
Swedish
Alternative forms
- nimm
Etymology
From Old Swedish næmber (“apt, docile”), from Old Norse næmr, from Proto-Germanic *n?mjaz, derived from Proto-Germanic *neman? (“to take”). Compare Danish Danish nem (“easy”) and Icelandic næmur (“docile, sensitive”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Adjective
nim (comparative nimmare, superlative nimmast)
- (Scania) convenient, handy, practical, easy
Declension
Derived terms
- nim i fingrarna
References
- ”nim” in Lundbladh, Carl-Erik (2014) Skånska dialektord, 2nd edition, Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen
- nim in Elias Wessén, Våra ord : deras uttal och ursprung (1979)
- ”næma” in de Vries, Jan (2000) Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 2nd revised edition, Leiden: Brill, page 413
- ”nämber” in Söderwall, K.F. (1884-1918) Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket?[5], volume I-III, Digitized in ”Fornsvensk lexikalisk databas”
Anagrams
- min
Volapük
Etymology
From English animal (which ultimately derives from Latin animal)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [nim]
Noun
nim (nominative plural nims)
- animal (Animalia)
Declension
Hyponyms
- hinim
- jinim
- nimil
- nimül
Derived terms
See also
- bakter
- böd
- dinosaur
- fit
- fösil
- lif
- mafib
- räptul
- ruböd
- rulif
- süganim
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