Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of obtund
adjectiveobtunding (comparative more obtunding, superlative most obtunding)
comparative more obtunding · superlative most obtunding
- medicineDeadening; stultifying.First known use 17th c.
Both admitted the alternately stimulating and obtunding influence of heterosexual magnetism.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 17: Ithaca]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 619
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