Examples of use of BENUMBED
1. The first shock benumbed him, and he appears to have been more or less unconscious during the rest of the time.
2. Without further ado, let me then quote extensively from a speech delivered May 3 on the floor of the Senate by George Voinovich, a Republican from Ohio –– a speech that, by the way, drew almost no comment from his colleagues or from the apparently benumbed press corps.