insensibility; obtuseness &c adj.; palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia
[Med.], anaesthesia; sleep &c 823; hemiplegia†, motor paralysis;
vegetable state; coma.
anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous
oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen;
refrigeration.
V. be insensible &c adj.; have a thick skin, have a rhinoceros hide.
render insensible &c adj.; anaesthetize†, blunt, pall, obtund†,
benumb, paralyze; put under the influence of chloroform &c n.; stupefy,
stun.
Adj. insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient†, callous, thick-
skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse,
dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.