Retundo, dis, di, pen cor. sum, pen. prod. dere. Plini. To make blunt or dull: to turne the edge of a thing: to beate often on a thing.Gladios in rempub. districtos retundere, per translationem. Cicer.To make blunt and turne the edges of the swords that are drawne against the common weale: to make that their power do no harme to, &c.Mucronem styli retundere.Cic.To make that ones stile be not so sharpe and biting.Improbitatem alicuius retundere. Quint. To represse ones wickednesse.Linguam & sermones quorundam retundere.Liu.To represse and stop the enill talke of certaine persons.Tela coniurationis retundere.Cic.Aliquem retundere. Cice. To represse or quaile one.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕ-tundo, tŭdi (also rettŭdi, Phaedr. 4, 22, 21 Orell. N. cr.), tūsum (retunsus, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 27; 4, 4, 8), 3, v. a., to beat or pound back any thing sharp, i. e. to blunt, dull (class.). I.Lit.: ferrum, Cic. Sull. 30, 83: in Massagetas ferrum, Hor. C. 1, 35, 39: gladios in rem publicam destrictos, Cic. Cat. 3, 1, 2: ascias (tilia), Plin. 16, 40, 76, 207: hamata tela, Ov. Am. 2, 9, 13; cf.: conjurationis nefaria tela, Cic. Dom. 24, 63. —II.Trop., to blunt, dull, deaden, weaken, restrain, check, etc.: (censorii stili) mucronem, Cic. Clu. 44, 123: mucronem ingenii cotidianā pugnā, Quint. 10, 5, 16 (with deteratur fulgor): belle iste puer retundit Antonium, Atticus ap. Cic. Att. 16, 15, 3: collegam, Tac. A. 5, 11: animum, qui luxuriā et lasciviā Diffluit,
