Word Meanings - UNBENUMB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To relieve of numbness; to restore sensation to.

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• SENSATION
  An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable,
• RESTORE
  To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover. "To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And
• SENSATIONALISM
  The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism. 2. The practice or methods of sensational
• RELIEVEMENT
  The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release.
• RESTORER
  One who, or that which, restores.
• SENSATIONALIST
  An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism. 2. One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
• SENSATIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. 2. Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge. 3. Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic;
• RESTOREMENT
  Restoration.
• RELIEVE
  discharge, relieve, fr. L. relevare to lift up, raise, make light, relieve; pref. re- re- + levare to raise, fr. levis light. See 1. To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise. Piers Plowman. 2. To cause to seem to rise;
• RELIEVER
  One who, or that which, relieves.
• NUMBNESS
  The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.
• PRESENSATION
  Previous sensation, notion, or idea. Dr. H. More.
• AFTERSENSATION
  A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation