numbness Copy link • numbness: torpor: Cels. 2, 8, med. (in Cic. N. D. 2, 50, extr. = numbing power, belonging to the torpedo): to cause n. (stupefy), t. afferre (corpori), Plin. 20, 21, 84 § 223; t. obducere, id. 22, 25, 71; artus torpore hebetare, Val. Max. 3, 8, ext. 6. Seized with (rendered senseless by) n., obstupefactus, torpens: v. numb (adj.).