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Obtund

//əbˈtʌnd// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull. transitive

    "[…] the use of alcoholic decoctions[…] which are given as medicines to allay pain, obtund nerve sensibility, to cure the little sufferer of his vital manifestations […]"

  2. 2
    reduce the edge or violence of wordnet

Etymology

Latin obtundere (“to dull", "deaden", "deafen”), from ob- (see ob-) + tundere. More at obtuse.

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