benumb

verb2

1. •
   To make numb, as by cold or anesthetic.

   • […] the sayd Phillip […] in the same his pilgrimage was stricken with such colde, that he fell into a palsey, and was benumbed of the right side of his body. — 1563
2. •
   (figurative) To deaden, dull (the mind, faculties, etc.).

   • I struggled, and trembled, and was so benumb’d with Terror, that I sunk down, not in a Fit, and yet not myself […] — 1741