Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In medicine, to deaden or lessen irritation in; soothe by removing or diminishing irritability.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Med.) To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate.
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- verb transitive, medicine To
diminish thesensibility of; todebilitate ; to soothe.
Etymologies
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ab- + irritate
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