hebetate

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: heb=e=tate

CIDE DICTIONARY

hebetate, v. t. [L. hebetatus, p. p. of hebetare to dull. See Hebete.].

 To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties.  Southey  [1913 Webster]

hebetate, a. 

•  Obtuse; dull.  [1913 Webster]
•  Having a dull or blunt and soft point.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

hebetate

Insensibility

VB be insensible, have a rhinoceros hide, show insensibility, not mind, not care, not be affected by, have no desire for, have no interest in, feel no interest in, take no interest in, nil admirari, not care a straw for, disregard, set at naught, turn a deaf ear to, vegetate, render insensible, render callous, blunt, obtund, numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate, stun, stupefy, brutify, brutalize, chloroform, anaesthetize, put under, assify, inure, harden the heart, steel, caseharden, sear.