Difference between Afraid and Numb

AFRAID vs NUMB: ADJECTIVE

Filled with regret or concern. Used especially to soften an unpleasant statement.
Filled with fear; frightened.
Feeling worry or concern or insecurity
Having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
Regretful, sorry
Filled with fear or apprehension
Filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement

Lacking sensation
So frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror
Deprived of the power to feel or move normally; benumbed.
Emotionally unresponsive; indifferent.
Enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible.
Without the power of sensation and motion or feeling; insensible.
Not able to react, surprised, shocked
(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive

To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.

Filled with regret or concern
Synonyms Afraid, Frightened, Terrified, timid, shy, apprehensive, troubled, suspicious, distrustful. Afraid expresses a less degree of fear than frightened or terrified, which describe outward states. In colloquial language, I am afraid is often nearly equivalent to I suspect, I am inclined to think, or the like, and is regularly used as a kind of polite introduction to a correction, objection, etc., or to make a statement sound less positive: as, I am afraid you are wrong; I am afraid that argument won't hold.
Impressed with fear or apprehension; fearful: followed by of before the object of fear, where that is not an infinitive: as, to be afraid of death; I am afraid to go.

Taken; seized.
Deprived of the power of sensation, as from a stoppage of the circulation; torpid; hence, stupefied; powerless to feel or act: as, fingers numb with cold; numb senses.
Producing numbness; benumbing.
Synonyms Benumbed, deadened, paralyzed, insensible.
To deprive of the power of sensation; dull tho sense of feeling in; benumb; render torpid.
To render dull; deaden; stupefy.
Unresponsive
Stunned or paralyzed with terror
Petrified
(transitive; intransitive verb) To make or become numb.

Horrified, Appalled, Shocked, Panicked, Disinclined, Cowed, Alarmed, Concerned, Apprehensive, Intimidated, Petrified, Terrified, Frightened, Fearful, Scared

Stunned, Shocked, Paralyzed, Groggy, Dazed, Benumb, Dead, Blunt, Insensitive, Dull, Afraid, Asleep, Insensible, Petrified, Benumbed

Horrified, Appalled, Shocked, Panicked, Disinclined, Cowed, Alarmed, Concerned, Apprehensive, Intimidated, Petrified, Terrified, Frightened, Fearful, Scared

Stunned, Shocked, Paralyzed, Groggy, Dazed, Benumb, Dead, Blunt, Insensitive, Dull, Afraid, Asleep, Insensible, Petrified, Benumbed

It might have been when you were afraid of commitment, or even when you were afraid of being vulnerable.
He describes being Queer and growing up afraid of being outed, afraid of being close to other Queer teens.
The ghost or the zombie never frightened us who were not afraid, but they will run after them who were too afraid.
Milla is afraid of her: has always been afraid of her.
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Once again she admitted to herself that she was afraid, horribly afraid, of the beautiful woman with the cruel eyes.
Communism is everywhere and when you try to see it, you might start to get afraid, very afraid.
Be afraid, America, be very afraid not so much of ISIS, but of the Emory college students.
No one who hates but is afraid of love, and therefore must he be afraid of God.
So the Nome was afraid of himself and afraid of everything around him.

Grip the frozen steel, feel it numb you.
Instructions on How to Obtain a DUNS Numb.
Numb feet is a common symptom of diabetes.
You pull back and your hand is numb.
We all numb and take the edge off.
You know, when everything feels quiet and numb?
Netgear Customer Care Service Toll Free Phone Numb.
My hands got numb on the old bars.
The only way you could numb out the pain, the only way you could numb out the overwhelm was to go drink.
The area around the cut feels numb, or an area farther down from the cut is numb.