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Verbs (4)

numb, benumb, blunt, dull

v. make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"

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Fuzzynyms (23)

deaden, blunt

v. make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"

diminish, belittle

v. lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; "don't belittle your colleagues"

dull, blunt

v. make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"

bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discolorise

v. remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt"

deaden

v. make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"

paralyze, paralyse

v. make powerless and unable to function; "The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation"

petrify

v. cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"

jolt

v. disturb (someone's) composure; "The audience was jolted by the play"

freeze

v. cause to freeze; "Freeze the leftover food"

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Antonyms (2)

sensitize, sensitise

v. cause to sense; make sensitive; "She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society"; "My tongue became sensitized to good wine"

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