émousser

Elles transforment les gens en victimes dépendantes et émoussent les angles de la résistance politique.
They turn people into dependent victims and blunt the edges of political resistance.
Les graisses et les hydrates de carbone émoussent la libération d'hormone de croissance.
Fats and carbohydrates blunt growth hormone release.
Raisonnement et volonté s’émoussent et se perdent.
Reasoning and will become dull and lost.
Et cette lutte, ce conflit engendrent la confusion, émoussent l'esprit et nos cœurs deviennent insensibles.
And this struggle and conflict make for confusion, dull the mind and our hearts become insensitive.
En écartant la croix dont ils doivent se charger en vue de se conformer à la loi naturelle, ils émoussent leur conscience et, cherchant à éviter ses reproches, finissent par transgresser les dix commandements.
By shunning the cross which they would have to take up in order to be in harmony with natural law, they blunt the conscience; and they will, to avoid reproach, violate the ten commandments.
C’est le devoir d’être vigilants, de ne pas céder aux pressions, aux tentations et aux péchés, les nôtres ou ceux des autres, qui émoussent notre sensibilité à la beauté de la sainteté, à la joie de l’Évangile.
It is the duty to be vigilant, not to allow the pressures, the temptations and the sins of ourselves or others to dull our sensitivity to the beauty of holiness, to the joy of the Gospel.
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