Crossword-Solution: OBTUND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Obtund | v. t. | To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “OBTUND”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Deaden or dull | 2 answers |
| hebetate | 3 answers |
| DEADEN, ESPECIALLY BY WRAPPING | 10 answers |
| DEADEN FEELINGS OR MORALS | 11 answers |
| Desensitize. | 14 answers |
| make insensitive | 23 answers |
| Blunt | 61 answers |
| Deaden | 63 answers |
| Harden | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OBTUND (5)
Here Claudia formed the habit of drinking much more wine than was good for her: and she did it to blunt her sensibility; to obtund the sharpness of her heartache; to give her sleep.
See Stutter.] Defn: To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall.
For instance, if patients are asked to breathe rapidly and deeply for a few minutes, there is a hyperoxygenation {756} of the blood which seems to obtund sensibility.
And she must recollect too that the very pain of disappointment, which she is obliged to inflict and to witness from day to day, in her unfortunate lovers, is of itself calculated to weaken and obtund her feelings and sympathies, and to generate coldness and hardness of heart.
Beckford administered the balls as "physic," when, in fact, they can only be termed antimonial alteratives, calculated to obtund acrimony, and alter the property of the blood.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1987–2005).