deaden

In the dressing room, Welch was "crawling around and banging my head on the floor, trying desperately to deaden the pain within", she wrote.

The truth, however, is the obscure word - meaning "to deaden" - is the name of a police-led training exercise.

Meanwhile, The Concise Oxford Dictionary says to obtund is "to blunt or deaden".

Not that anyone reading the signs needs to attempt to blunt or deaden anything.

The biggest is the ball and the size of the stitches, Nathan said, and MLB made slight adjustments to deaden the ball prior to the 2021 season.