[+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples. 2. : lacking any feeling â If a part of your body (such as a foot or leg) is asleep, it is not able to feel anything for a brief time, usually because you have kept it in an awkward position for too long.
The US was justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan already killed over 2,000 people in the Pearl Harbor bombings. We had done nothing to provoke them, unless you count our cutting off trade with Japan, limiting their oil supply.
--Senator Alfred Beveridge, 1898. Americans justified imperialistic behavior by: 1  Claiming that it was their responsibility. 2  Americans and Europeans both claimed that it was their responsibility as superior races to uplift, civilize and Christianize native peoples. 3  This was known as the White Mans Burden and was based upon the ideas of social Darwinism.