(verb) : hĕbĕto, āvi, ātum, 1, id.
* To make blunt or dull, to blunt, dull, dim, deaden, weaken (perh. not ante-Aug.; not in Cic.).
* Lit.: hastas,Liv. 8, 10, 3: vulneribus suis ferrum hostium,id. 30, 35, 8: tela,Sil. 16, 105: aciem oculorum,Plin. 20, 6, 21, § 47: oculos,Lact. 6, 2: visus alicui,Verg. A. 2, 605: dies hebetarat sidera,had dimmed,Ov. M. 5, 444: umbra terrae lunam hebetari,Plin. 2, 13, 10, § 57; cf.: smaragdos in sole hebetari,id. 37, 5, 18, § 69; 28, 7, 23, § 79: auster aures hebetat,Cels. 2, 1: primores dentes mollientes aut hebetantes verba,Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 70: cummium genera amaritudines hebetant,moderate, lessen,id. 24, 11, 64, § 105; cf.: venena omnia (oleum),id. 23, 4, 40, § 80: odor suavior e longinquo, propius admotus hebetatur,id. 21, 7, 18, § 35: faba hebetare sensus existimata,id. 18, 12, 30, § 118: vos mihi taurorum flammas hebetastis,quenched the fiery breath,Ov. M. 7, 210.
* Trop., to dull, blunt, make stupid: animo simul et corpore hebetato,Suet. Claud. 2: Lethe hebetans pectora,Ov. P. 4, 1, 17: hebetatum ingenium,Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 9: rei publicae vires hebetatae sunt,Just. 6, 8: vino tristitia et cura hebetatur,Plin. 23, 1, 22, § 38.

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