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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Obtunded

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Obtunding

[L.

obtundere

obtusum

;

(see

) +

tundere

to strike or beat. See

To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell;

as, to

obtund

the acrimony of the gall

[Archaic]

Harvey.

They . . . have filled all our law books with the

obtunding

story of their suits and trials.

Milton.

Verb.

[L. obtundo; ob and tundo, to beat.]

To dull; to blunt; to quell; to deaden; to reduce the edge, pungency or violent action of any thing; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall.