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dullingverbpresent participle of dull to reduce or weaken in strength or feelingthe aspirin dulled his headache and he was soon feeling better benumbing, blunting, cauterizing, dampening, damping, deadening, numbing muffling, muting, toning (down)decreasing, diminishing, lessening, letting up (on), lowering, reducing, subduingdebilitating, enfeebling, weakeningdwindling, receding, subsiding, tapering (off), waningalleviating, easing, lighteningabating, moderating sharpening, whetting amplifying, augmenting, beefing (up), boosting, consolidating, deepening, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifying, redoubling, stepping up, strengtheninganimating, arousing, stimulating to make white or lighter by removing colorthe painting's once-vivid colors have been dulled by time blanching, bleaching, blenching, decolorizing, fading, paling, snowing, washing out, whitening brightening, lighteningdimming, mattingetiolatingwhitewashingfrosting, silvering darkening, deepening, embrowning blackeningblotching, checkering, dappling, daubing, discoloring, flecking, marbling, mottling, patterning, polychroming, shading, specking, speckling, splotching, spotting, streaking, striating, striping, tarnishing, variegatingcoloring, dyeing, painting, pigmenting, staining, tincturing, tingeing(or tinging), tintingburnishing, polishing, shining |