Blunted
[blʌntid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Blunt
Editor: Olivia
Examples
- Have the irreconcilables a soul audacious and less blunted than our domesticated ones? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He has blunted the blade of his penknife and broken the point off by sticking that instrument into his desk in every direction. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Tom had been lying two days since the fatal night, not suffering, for every nerve of suffering was blunted and destroyed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In rocky or mountain regions the driven well is not practicable, because the driving point is blunted and broken by the rock and cannot pierce the rocky beds of land. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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