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Meanings of blunted in English

Made dull or blunt.

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Usage of blunted in English
1
They can protect workers at the risk of blunted incentives to hire.
The Irish Times
2
But in the intervening period his moral sense had got largely blunted.
What's Bred in the Bone
3
The heavy denim had also blunted the dog's attack on her groin.
In the Dark
4
Anything that was not actual rebuff was invitation to her blunted sense.
The Judgment House
5
Its blade would not be blunted: it could deal with its material.
Essays in Literature and History
6
Instead they floundered, their invention as blunted as the visitors' forward ranks.
The Guardian
7
They fought with blunted tourney weapons, so Brienne's mace had no spikes.
A feast for crows
8
All was blunted but the Christian's faith and trust in his Redeemer.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
9
It bled off a bit of her stress, blunted the sharp edge.
Witch blood
10
Talking to the little old lady somehow blunted his sense of desolation.
Love and Mr. Lewisham
11
All her feelings appeared to be strangely blunted at the examination to-day.
The Queen of Hearts
12
Crossbows and arrows will be used, but the weapons will be blunted.
St. George for England
13
From this time the fine moral sense of James Lewis was blunted.
Choice Readings for the Home Circle
14
But the delay has blunted the momentum of the state's eventual winner.
Reuters
15
The elf smacked the blunted end of his spear into the ground.
A nameless witch
16
Thus, in time, I well see, conscience is blunted, and becomes hardened.
Mysteries of Paris — Volume 03
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