All dulling synonyms

verb dulling

• hush — to become or be silent or quiet: They hushed as the judge walked in.
• stupefy — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
• dazzle — If someone or something dazzles you, you are extremely impressed by their skill, qualities, or beauty.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• rattle — to give out or cause a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as in consequence of agitation and repeated concussions: The windows rattled in their frames.
• paralyze — to affect with paralysis.
• shock — a thick, bushy mass, as of hair.
• deprive — If you deprive someone of something that they want or need, you take it away from them, or you prevent them from having it.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• tire — Archaic. to dress (the head or hair), especially with a headdress.
• startle — to disturb or agitate suddenly as by surprise or alarm.
• injure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
• confound — If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
• damp — Something that is damp is slightly wet.
• amaze — If something amazes you, it surprises you very much.
• repress — to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
• surprise — to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty surprised me.
• suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
• overwhelm — to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• awe — Awe is the feeling of respect and amazement that you have when you are faced with something wonderful and often rather frightening.
• blunt — If you are blunt, you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.
• quieten — to become quiet (often followed by down).
• besot — to stupefy or muddle by narcotics or infatuation
• consume — If you consume something, you eat or drink it.
• incapacitate — to deprive of ability, qualification, or strength; make incapable or unfit; disable.
• dope — any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
• chloroform — Chloroform is a colourless liquid with a strong sweet smell, which makes you unconscious if you breathe its vapour.
• gas — GNU assembler
• frustrate — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
• drown — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
• unnerve — to deprive of courage, strength, determination, or confidence; upset: Fear unnerved him.
• numb — deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move: fingers numb with cold.
• freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
• dim — DIM statement
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• benumb — to make numb or powerless; deaden physical feeling in, as by cold
• dampen — To dampen something such as someone's enthusiasm or excitement means to make it less lively or intense.
• devitalize — to lower or destroy the vitality of; make weak or lifeless
• stun — to deprive of consciousness or strength by or as if by a blow, fall, etc.: The blow to his jaw stunned him for a moment.
• lessen — to become less.
• alleviate — If you alleviate pain, suffering, or an unpleasant condition, you make it less intense or severe.
• anesthetize — to cause anesthesia in; give an anesthetic to
• desolate — A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• perturb — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
• debilitate — If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
• torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
• mortify — to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
• abase — to humble or belittle (oneself, etc)