MEANING
To blunt sensitivity, sensation, or mental responsiveness.
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Words that belong together
- obtund pain
- obtunded awareness
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The drug obtunded the pain without stopping the bleeding.
Exhaustion had obtunded his awareness of the voices outside.
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Word forms
- Base
- obtund
- Past tense
- obtunded
- Past participle
- obtunded
- Present participle
- obtunding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- obtund
- Present continuous
- am/is/are obtunding
- Present perfect
- have/has obtunded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been obtunding
- Past
- obtunded
- Past continuous
- was/were obtunding
- Past perfect
- had obtunded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been obtunding
- Future
- will obtund
- Future continuous
- will be obtunding
- Future perfect
- will have obtunded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been obtunding
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: obtund; obtunds; obtunded; obtunded; obtunding Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: obtunds.
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