verb
Make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
Synonyms: muting, muffling, stifling, dampening, dulling, dimming
Antonyms: increasing, animating, building, strengthening, enlivening
verb
Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
Synonyms: numbing, dulling, weakening, doping, retarding, desensitizing, blunting, devitalizing, stunning, stupefying, incapacitating, freezing, girdling, subduing, paralyzing, tiring, exhausting, injuring, soothing, benumbing, repressing, frustrating, suppressing, quieting, stifling, smothering, petrifying, depressing, muffling, moderating, lessening, dazing, killing, narcotizing, gassing, slowing, diminishing, impairing
Antonyms: enlivening, invigorating, revitalizing, animating