hebetate
31deaden — v. a. 1. Weaken, impair, abate, restrain, retard, dull, damp, dampen. 2. Blunt, benumb, paralyze, obtund, hebetate, make insensible …
32stupefy — v. a. [Written also Stupify.] Dull, blunt, benumb, muddle, hebetate, make stupid make dull, make torpid …
33blunt — I. a. 1. Dull, obtuse, pointless, edgeless. 2. Dull witted, dull, thick witted, obtuse, stupid, stolid. 3. Abrupt, bluff, plain, uncourtly, unceremonious, without formal civility. 4. Brusk (or brusque), rough, harsh, uncourteous, ungracious,… …
34dull — I. a. 1. Stupid, stolid, doltish, blockish, brutish, unintelligent, blunt witted. 2. Apathetic, insensible, unimpassioned, passionless, dead, callous. 3. Inert, inactive, lifeless, inanimate, heavy, sluggish, slow, torpid. 4. Blunt, obtuse,… …
35deaden — v 1. press, dampen, blunt, obtund, hebetate; weaken, subdue, moderate; soothe, assuage, mitigate, abate, lessen, diminish, reduce, buff; repress, suppress, restrain, retard; choke, stifle, check, damp; muffle, mute, quiet, smother. 2. devitalize …
36dull — adj 1. unintelligent, witless, slow witted, dull witted; stolid, obtuse, crass, Boeotian, bovine, blockish, lumpish; dense, thick headed, Inf. thick, slow, stupid, Brit., Australian Inf. dill, Scot, and North Eng. dowf; backward, doltish, Sl.… …
37numb — adj 1. sensationless, feelingness, insensate; senseless, insentient, unperceiving; dazed, in shock, anesthetized, drugged, paralyzed. 2. callous, insensitive, thickskinned; unimpressionable, inured, hardened, hard, casehardened; unemotional,… …
38petrify — v 1. ossify, fossilize, turn to stone, Archaic. lapidify, mineralize; calcify, vitrify, crystallize; indurate, harden, make hard, become hard, strengthen, stiffen, starch; solidify, densify, inspissate, Pharm. incrassate, thicken; steel, toughen …
39sear — v 1. burn, singe, toast, brown, broil; overcook, burn to a crisp, scorch, char, cauterize, oxidize. 2. brand, stamp, mark, put one s mark on. 3. harden, steel, toughen, brutalize, make callous, caseharden, inure; dull, blunt, obtund, hebetate;… …
40hebetation — noun see hebetate …
