unnumb

Verb

unnumb (third-person singular simple present unnumbs, present participle unnumbing, simple past and past participle unnumbed)

1. To cause not to be numb, to relieve of numbness.
   • I was now an invited contributor to art shows in the East. Sympathetic criticisms were unnumbing me; I desired to paint again.1944, Emily Carr, “Art and the House”, in The House of All Sorts
   • “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.”2013, Steve Ercolani, “Baseball League Creates ‘Islands’ of Refuge for Camden Kids,” npr.org, 16 July, 2013