Antonyms for blunted
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : bluhnt |
| Phonetic Transcription : blÊŒnt |
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
- 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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