All dulling synonyms

verb dulling

• accustom — If you accustom yourself or another person to something, you make yourself or them become used to it.
• suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
• become — If someone or something becomes a particular thing, they start to change and develop into that thing, or start to develop the characteristics mentioned.
• dirty — soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
• silence — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
• ease — freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort: to enjoy one's ease.
• relieve — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
• temper — a particular state of mind or feelings.
• soothe — to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
• mollify — to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
• assuage — If you assuage an unpleasant feeling that someone has, you make them feel it less strongly.
• muzzle — the mouth, or end for discharge, of the barrel of a gun, pistol, etc.
• soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
• squelch — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
• mitigate — to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
• relax — to make less tense, rigid, or firm; make lax: to relax the muscles.
• comfort — If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
• free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
• cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
• cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
• quash — to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
• sully — to soil, stain, or tarnish.
• harm — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
• slow — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
• mar — to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
• slacken — If something slackens or if you slacken it, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
• pollute — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
• ebb — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
• smear — to spread or daub (an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance) on or over something: to smear butter on bread.
• wane — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
• damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
• dwindle — to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
• defame — If someone defames another person or thing, they say bad and untrue things about them.
• recede — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
• taint — the area between the testicles or vulva and the anus; the perineum.
• taper — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
• spoil — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
• subside — to sink to a low or lower level.
• stain — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• taper off — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
• tar — a sailor.
• depress — If someone or something depresses you, they make you feel sad and disappointed.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• mute — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
• inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.