deaden
From LSJ
ἐν ἐμοὶ αὐτῇ στήθεσι πάλλεται ἦτορ ἀνὰ στόμα → my heart beats up to my throat
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).
