Antonyms for blunted

Grammar : Verb

Spell : bluhnt

Phonetic Transcription : blʌnt

Definition of blunted

Origin : c.1200, "dull, obtuse," perhaps from or related to Old Norse blundra (see blunder (v.)). Of tools or weapons, late 14c. Meaning "abrupt of speech or manner" is from 1580s.

verb make dull

Example sentences :

His uneasiness, his exasperation, his scorn were blunted at last by all these trying hours.
Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad

Some of the finest intellects in the world have been blunted by liquor.
Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine

His feelings had become so blunted that he did not care how soon he was shot in the back.
Extract from : « Victory » by Joseph Conrad

A blunted peak and a low black line, from the glittering waste of snow.
Extract from : « Alcyone » by Archibald Lampman

They had, in effect, a ready-made craft not unlike a canoe with blunted bows.
Extract from : « Storm Over Warlock » by Andre Norton

His own offence counted as naught, so blunted was his moral sense.
Extract from : « Rabbi and Priest » by Milton Goldsmith

It is a wrong to whose acuteness we are blunted by familiarity.
Extract from : « The Negro and the Nation » by George S. Merriam

Before 1872 the keenness of Northern radicalism was blunted.
Extract from : « The New Nation » by Frederic L. Paxson

As I told you, in the presence of so much death the sensibilities are blunted.
Extract from : « The Johnstown Horror » by James Herbert Walker

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by John Bartlett

Synonyms for blunted

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