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Meanings of dull in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "damp"
Examples for "damp"
1
The family say the house is damp and unsafe for their children.
2
Food was paltry and hygienic conditions often dismal in damp overcrowded cells.
3
Silverfish only thrive in damp conditions, so they're fairly easy to control.
4
I bring coffee,' she said firmly, and took the damp bundle away.
5
The street lamps were alight; the rays glittered on the damp pavements.
1
His history makes the adage 'innocent until proven guilty' a mute point.
2
He didn't speak, just held his hands up in a mute question.
3
Yet low inflation and modest employment gains may mute bond market fears.
4
Most of the inhabitants had gone forth; others remained in mute expectation.
5
In his greatest hour of need, his father's spirit remained mute, unreachable.
1
National elections can often dampen demand as buyers put off major purchases.
2
Another round of losses in a new area would further dampen credit.
3
Still, the results did not dampen the company's expectations for the year.
4
Trump's problems with Latino voters could dampen his Nov. 8 election hopes.
5
Rising U.S. interest rates usually dampen attractiveness of higher yields in Asia.
1
I must not have heard her enter the house through the muffle.
2
Wired: Speakers hidden behind the piano-black front bezel provide crisp, muffle-free audio.
3
The wind seemed to muffle it and fly away with it directly.
4
If I did muffle the oars it was for a good reason.
5
It rang again-louderthis time, without the purse to muffle the sound.
1
The definite pursuit of the higher good will deaden the lower anxieties.
2
Besides, he couldn't bear to deaden his only connection to the outside.
3
A dread seemed to descend upon him and deaden his natural buoyancy.
4
Thick carpets, into which the feet sink, deaden the sound of footsteps.
5
By this common device she had sought to deaden the vivid lightning.
1
So let's tone down the schadenfreude and hope that Theranos can deliver.
2
Plus, like I said, you need to tone down the compassion anyway.
3
As for the curtsy, I'm trying to tone down my wrist action.
4
She must do something to tone down the beating of her heart.
5
There is no effort to touch up or tone down the portrait.
Usage of dull in inglês
1
Yet, the faint cries for help plus some dull thumping noises continue.
2
And in one as in the other the finer susceptibilities grow dull.
3
As so often with the environment, it's the dull things that work.
4
You sit dull in the market all day; you want a feast.
5
Europe's belief in a dull but safe civilisation is its main attraction.
6
This shortened, low-activity period is also less likely to dull public memory.
7
Sometimes he is dressed in dull gray and sometimes in rusty red.
8
The idea suffocated her; each sob drew from her a dull moan.
9
The lazy native streets were still dull with the end of labor.
10
The temperature was deadly cold; the dull houses were rime-covered and forbidding.
11
The sentries' boots dull with cold; their ceremonial breastplates turn to tin.
12
The act was of his own conception; the dull dog was ambitious.
13
Alas, no answers present themselves in the dull, tuneless, prosaic final product.
14
It is very dull to stay all the evening in the enclosure.
15
I could hardly believe that dull thud issued from my own body.
16
And so the young pup had to stay in the dull stall.
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Dull through the time
Dull across language varieties
United Kingdom
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Ireland
Common
United States of America
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