Verb

• S: (v) besot, stupefy (make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) desensitize, desensitise (cause not to be sensitive) "The war desensitized many soldiers"; "The photographic plate was desensitized"
• S: (v) numb, benumb, blunt, dull (make numb or insensitive) "The shock numbed her senses"
• S: (v) stun, bedaze, daze (overcome as with astonishment or disbelief) "The news stunned her"
• S: (v) besot, stupefy (make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation)
• S: (v) deafen, deaf (make or render deaf) "a deafening noise"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame