All obtund synonyms

verb obtund

• cripple — A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
• dampen — To dampen something such as someone's enthusiasm or excitement means to make it less lively or intense.
• debilitate — If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
• sap — Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
• soften — to make soft or softer.
• undermine — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
• water down — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• attenuate — To attenuate something means to reduce it or weaken it.
• benumb — to make numb or powerless; deaden physical feeling in, as by cold
• deaden — If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
• desensitise — to lessen the sensitiveness of.
• desensitize — To desensitize someone to things such as pain, anxiety, or other people's suffering, means to cause them to react less strongly to them.
• disable — make not work
• enfeeble — Make weak or feeble.
• numb — deprived of physical sensation or the ability to move: fingers numb with cold.
• hebetate — to make dull or blunt.
• take the edge off — If something takes the edge off a situation, usually an unpleasant one, it weakens its effect or intensity.
• anaesthetize — When a doctor or other trained person anaesthetizes a patient, they make the patient unconscious or unable to feel pain by giving them an anaesthetic.
• anaesthetise — anesthetize.
• anesthetize — to cause anesthesia in; give an anesthetic to
• dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• paralyse — to affect with paralysis.
• paralyze — to affect with paralysis.
• stupefy — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
• blunt — If you are blunt, you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.
• chill — When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze.
• freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
• frost — Robert (Lee) 1874–1963, U.S. poet.
• immobilise — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
• immobilize — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
• 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.