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Blunt (Verb)

Meaning 1

Make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound".

Classification

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Synonyms

  • Deaden

Hypernyms

  • Change
  • Modify

Hyponyms

  • Break
  • Petrify
  • Weaken
  • Obtund
  • Dampen
  • Soften

Meaning 2

Make less intense; "blunted emotions".

Classification

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Meaning 3

Make less sharp; "blunt the knives".

Classification

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Hypernyms

  • Alter
  • Modify

Meaning 4

Make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses".

Classification

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling.

Synonyms

  • Benumb
  • Numb
  • Dull

Hypernyms

  • Desensitise
  • Desensitize

Meaning 5

Make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge".

Classification

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Synonyms

  • Dull

Hypernyms

  • Change
  • Modify
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