émousser

Vous savez comment ils ont émoussé votre sens du bien et du mal.
You know how they dulled your sense of wrong.
Les paysans avec lesquels vous vous mélangez ont émoussé vos facultés Quant à ce qui peut ou ne peut pas être dit dans la haute société.
No doubt the common people you mix with have blunted your faculties as to what may or may not be said in polite society.
Il doit y avoir à cela des raisons et des causes : la souffrance, les évasions, les croyances, d'incessantes activités ont émoussé votre esprit et endurci votre cœur.
There must be reasons and causes which have made you dull: suffering, escapes, beliefs, incessant activity, have made the mind dull, the heart unpliable.
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