Obtund

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  • transitive verb. To make less intense; dull or deaden.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To dull; blunt; quell; deaden; reduce the pungency or violent action of anything.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. reduce the edge or violence of
    • Word Usage
    "Here Claudia formed the habit of drinking much more wine than was good for her: and she did it to blunt her sensibility; to obtund the sharpness of her heartache; to give her sleep."
    Form
    obtunded  obtunding  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    blunt  deaden  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    blunt  deaden  dull  quell  
    verb-form
    obtunded  obtunding  obtunds  
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