hebetate
verb (used with object)
to make dull or blunt.
hebetation
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a word derived from
hebetate.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Southey has fallen, it seems, into a mournful condition: oblivion, mute hebetation, loss of all faculty.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
