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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
obtund .
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Examples
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On a macroeconomical level this is undeniable truth, but this truth obtunds what might otherwise seem a lot like Bush-sponsored price gouging on the part of Big Oil this past summer.
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Daily contact with vice obtunds their first abhorrence of it.
Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897
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Daily contact with vice obtunds their first abhorrence of it.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877
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