beˈnumbment
[f. as prec. + -ment.]
The action of benumbing; the fact or condition of being benumbed; torpor.
| 1816 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1843) II. 357 At first a partial benumbment takes place. 1851 Bunsen in Macready's Remin. II. 388 After one century of bloody internal wars and another of benumbment. |