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obtund
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synonyms: vitiate, hebetate, ~stultify ???
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Definition:to mitigate; to dullen; to lessen the effects of
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Some narcotic seems to have refrigerated the red liquor which circulates in the Doctor's veins, and to have hebetated and obtunded his powers of excogitation, for elegance and wit never met more happily than here.
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Both admitted the alternately stimulating and obtunding influence of heterosexual magnetism.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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