"obtund" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /əbˈtʌnd/ [UK], /ɒbˈtʌnd/ [UK], /əbˈtʌnd/ [US], /ɑbˈtʌnd/ [US] Audio: en-us-obtund.ogg [US] Forms: obtunds [present, singular, third-person], obtunding [participle, present], obtunded [participle, past], obtunded [past]
Rhymes: -ʌnd Etymology: Latin obtundere (“to dull", "deaden", "deafen”), from ob- (see ob-) + tundere. More at obtuse. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)tewd-}}, {{uder|en|la|obtundo|obtundere|to dull", "deaden", "deafen}} Latin obtundere (“to dull", "deaden", "deafen”), {{af|en|ob-}} ob- Head templates: {{en-verb}} obtund (third-person singular simple present obtunds, present participle obtunding, simple past and past participle obtunded)
  1. (transitive, chiefly medicine) To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Medicine Synonyms (dull or mitigate): blunt, deaden Derived forms: obtundity Translations (to dull): притъпявам (pritǎpjavam) (Bulgarian), hillitä (Finnish), rajoittaa (Finnish), abstumpfen (German), døyve (Norwegian Bokmål), dulme (Norwegian Bokmål)

Inflected forms

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