1. The flavour was refreshingly spicy and sour just as its name indicated, numbing the tongue for a few seconds.
2. The fish is cooked with plenty of spice and numbing seasoning all served in a pot.
3. Sichuan cuisine is notable for its use of mouth numbing spices and is quite popular in China and abroad.
4. Borders were supposed to be the simplest issue in peace talks, yet in a numbing two decades of talking the sides could never quite agree.
adj
1. causing numbness or insensitivity
e.g. the numbing effect of grief