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obtund (verb), obtunds; obtunded; obtunding
1. To decrease or to lessen the force or the intensity of something: After the doctor injected novocain in order to remove Tom's bad tooth, his senses were completely obtunded and he felt nothing more.
2. Etymology: from Latin obtundere from ob-, "against" + tundere, "to beat".
To reduce or to blunt the tensity of something.
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