This week's theme
Verbs

This week's words
descant
hebetate
blandish
importune
colligate

---

A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(HEB-i-tayt)

MEANING:

verb tr.: To make dull or obtuse.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin hebetare (to make blunt), from hebes (blunt). Earliest documented use: 1574.

USAGE:

"Habit then while it hebetates our sentiments, improves our judgments of things."
Xavier Bichat; Physiological Researches on Life and Death; Longman; 1815.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: