Make numb or insensitive.
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Examples for "dull "
1 Yet, the faint cries for help plus some dull thumping noises continue.
2 And in one as in the other the finer susceptibilities grow dull .
3 As so often with the environment, it's the dull things that work.
4 You sit dull in the market all day; you want a feast.
5 Europe's belief in a dull but safe civilisation is its main attraction.
1 The blunt answer is that effective change requires both transparency and accountability.
2 This message was spelt out in more blunt terms by government officials.
3 The conservative government fell recently because of a blunt undiplomatic U.S. note.
4 Good intentions won't quite be enough to soften a distinctly blunt vibe.
5 Results: During the study period 145 patients presented with blunt renal trauma.
1 By late afternoon, various family members said they felt numb with emotion.
2 This stuff will numb you up real good whatever your problem is.
3 It broke across Mitch's numb tiredness like a sea of ice water.
4 My body still felt numb and distant, but my vision was clear.
5 She still felt singularly numb toward the world and life in general.
1 A wave of cold fear seemed to benumb his tongue and brain.
2 But despondency did not benumb Mackenzie into apathy, as it has weaker men.
3 There are certain brains that even our educational system cannot benumb .
4 Yet who shall benumb the understanding, chain up the fancy, and freeze sensation?
5 Slavery seems to benumb all the faculties except the passions.
6 They had power to benumb every decent feeling in me.
7 The effect of this announcement was to benumb his faculties.
8 Furthermore, stimulants temporarily benumb and paralyze the inhibitory nervous system.
9 Then shall the breeding mares, that benumb 'd were, Like royal palfreys ride triumphant there.
10 The peculiar motion involved in turning a wheel has a wonderful tendency to benumb the mind.
11 And for the present I would not benumb
12 It was cold, but it did not benumb .
13 A miserable sullenness seemed to benumb my faculties.
14 He felt that another hour aloft would so benumb his senses that a crash would be inevitable.
15 There was not a department which the chill of this poor king's virtue did not somewhat benumb .
16 The small-talk, the perpetual demand on her attention, the constant interruptions, seemed to benumb what faculties she had.
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