obtund

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Also, Codeine can obtund you and it also supresses the cough reflex.

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  1. transitive verb To make less intense; dull or deaden.

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  • Also, Codeine can obtund you and it also supresses the cough reflex. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • "While it may be true that an adult, of his own free will, and without incentive, or predisposing causes, does occasionally become a drunkard, I am convinced that nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every one thousand individuals who become drunkards are made so in embryo, infancy, or childhood, by the use of alcoholic decoctions, soothing syrups, opiates, calomel, etc. which are given as medicines to allay pain, obtund nerve sensibility, to cure the little sufferer of his _vital manifestations_, of his _mental discomforts_, but leave the actual disease and its, perhaps, putrid causation to time and debilitated vitality to remove." —  Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
  • 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. —  Self-Raised
  • While we live upon the level with the rest of mankind, we are reminded of our duty by the admonitions of friends and reproaches of enemies; but men who stand in the highest ranks of society, seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction, and obtund remorse. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II
 

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  1. Middle English obtunden, from Latin obtundere : ob-, against; see ob- + tundere, to beat.

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  1. from Latin obtundere, strike at or upon, beat, blunt, dull, from ob, upon, + tundere, strike. Cf. contund.
 

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