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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DULLING, ppr. Making dull.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dull Dull, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Duller; p. pr. & vb. n. Dulling.] 1. To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. ``This . . . dulled their swords.'' --Bacon. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. --Shak. 2. To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like. Those [drugs] she has Will stupefy and dull the sense a while. --Shak. Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. --Trench. 3. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. ``Dulls the mirror.'' --Bacon. 4. To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden. Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through continuance. --Hooker.

Moby Thesaurus

abating, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, blunting, cathartic, chastening, cleansing, cushioning, dampening, damping, deadening, demulcent, diminishing, easing, emollient, lenitive, lessening, mitigating, mitigative, narcotic, numbing, pain-killing, palliative, purgative, reducing, relaxing, relieving, remedial, softening, soothing, stunning, stupefying, subduing, tempering