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Meanings of blunt the edge in English

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Usage of blunt the edge in English
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Still, he was not about to blunt the edge of his story.
Quantico
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Brynden Tully had never been a man to blunt the edge of his words.
A Game of Thrones
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Knox coughed, partly in laughter, partly to blunt the edge of her brother's obnoxiousness.
Losing charlotte
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Time, I trust, doth blunt the edge of her melancholy.
The Knight of the Golden Melice: A Historical Romance
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Walrath's ruling may blunt the edge they need to make money in Chapter 11 investing.
Reuters
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This man used to blunt the edge of every weapon by merely looking at it.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
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Do continued disappointments reduce sanguine hopes, and familiarity with objects blunt the edge of novelty?
An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition
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How shall I blunt the edge of this calamity, and rescue thee from new evils?
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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The Canon seemed, with a stammer of words, to try and blunt the edge of that clear question.
Saint's Progress
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Had you no complement of boiled neck of mutton before it, to blunt the edge of delicate desire?
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 / Letters 1821-184...
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Had you no cursed complement of boiled neck of mutton before it, to blunt the edge of delicate desire?
The Best Letters of Charles Lamb
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How it would take the sting out of sorrow, and blunt the edge of temptation, if we realised that!
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
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Several different expedients, however, may be fallen upon, which will effectually blunt the edge of all those incitements to diligence.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Rather, it was a fear that Harold's presence might blunt the edge of the fine companionship she enjoyed with the woodsman.
The Snowshoe Trail
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And if men-Frenchmenor the like-seefit to attire themselves in masquerade, no coward fear will blunt the edge of our swords.
The House of Walderne / A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in...
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The wooden shields did not even blunt the edge of the Toledo blade; the obsidian battle-axes could not contest with the iron maces.
South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure
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