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hebetate (HEB-i-tait) - v.t., to make dull or blunt.
Generally mental dullness. The even rarer form inhebetate, which is what I had in my queue, means to make something dull as in either not sharp or not interesting, but hebetate apparently cannot act on physical sharpness. The form I know better is hebetude, mental dullness/lethargy, thanks to growing up rereading The Space Child's Mother Goose. At the root of all of these is Latin hebes, dull/blunt.
---L.
Generally mental dullness. The even rarer form inhebetate, which is what I had in my queue, means to make something dull as in either not sharp or not interesting, but hebetate apparently cannot act on physical sharpness. The form I know better is hebetude, mental dullness/lethargy, thanks to growing up rereading The Space Child's Mother Goose. At the root of all of these is Latin hebes, dull/blunt.
---L.
