deaden

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).