unnumbとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

unnumb ‎(三人称単数 現在形 unnumbs, 現在分詞 unnumbing, 過去形および過去分詞形 unnumbed)

1. To cause not to be numb, to relieve of numbness.
   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Art and the House,”^[1]

     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,^[2]

     “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.”