deaden
From LSJ
Ὅστις γὰρ ἐν πολλοῖσιν ὡς ἐγὼ κακοῖς ζῇ, πῶς ὅδ᾽ Οὐχὶ κατθανὼν κέρδος φέρει; → For one who lives amidst such evils as I do, how could it not be best to die?
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
make dull: P. and V. ἀμβλύνειν, ἀπαμβλύνειν, V. καταμβλύνειν.
custom will work with time to deaden this feeling: V. ἀλλ' ὁ νόμος αὐτὰ τῷ χρόνῳ συνισχνανεῖ (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 694).