Definition of "obtunding" []

• Present participle of obtund. (verb)

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• "Both admitted the alternately stimulating and obtunding influence of heterosexual magnetism."
• "For the Stone being of a hollow spongie nature, has in the first and last of these appearances, all those pores fill'd with the obtunding and reflecting air; whereas in the second, all those pores are fill'd with a _medium_ that has much the same refraction with the particles of the Stone, and therefore those two being"
• "_retained consciousness_; and, such being the case, no effect could be produced for obtunding pain."