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Obtends vs Obtunds - What's the difference?

obtends | obtunds |

As verbs the difference between obtends and obtunds

is that obtends is third-person singular of obtend while obtunds is third-person singular of obtund.

obtends

English

Verb

(head)
  • (obtend)

    • obtend

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To oppose; to hold out in opposition.
    • (Dryden)
  • (obsolete) To offer as the reason for something; to pretend.
    • "'T was giv'n to you, your darling son to shroud,
    To draw the dastard from the fighting crowd,
    And, for a man, obtend an empty cloud."Dryden, John, The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneis. London: Jacob Tonson, 1697. Book X, line 124-126.
    (Webster 1913)

    References

    obtunds

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obtund)

    • obtund

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, chiefly, medicine) To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull.
  • * 1900 , Martha M. Allen, Alcohol, a Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine , ,
  • * 2008 , Jerrold H. Levy, Kenichi A. Tanaka & Eric J. Okun, "Cardial Surgical Pharmacology", in Cardiac Surgery in the Adult , ISBN 0071469133, p. 103,
    • Small doses of opioids are also useful in obtunding airway reflexes

    Synonyms

    * (dull or mitigate) blunt, deaden

    Related terms

    * obtuse