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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dull \Dull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Duller; p. pr. & vb. n. Dulling.] 1. To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. "This . . . dulled their swords." --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like. [1913 Webster] Those [drugs] she has Will stupefy and dull the sense a while. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. --Trench. [1913 Webster] 3. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. "Dulls the mirror." --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 4. To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden. [1913 Webster] Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through continuance. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "dulling": abating, allaying, alleviating, alleviative, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuaging, assuasive, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, blunting, cathartic, chastening, cleansing, cushioning, dampening, damping, deadening, demulcent, diminishing, easing, emollient, lenitive, lessening, mitigating, mitigative, narcotic, numbing, pain-killing, palliative, purgative, reducing, relaxing, relieving, remedial, softening, soothing, stunning, stupefying, subduing, tempering