Dulled
[dʌld]
Definition
(adj.) deprived of color; 'colors dulled by too much sun'; 'greyed with the dust of the road' .
(adj.) having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure; 'the mind of the audience is becoming dulled'; 'the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond' .
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Examples
- A shirt, for example, must not be discolored by perspiration, nor a waist faded by washing, nor a carpet dulled by sweeping with a dampened broom. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Her Majesty, who looks unusually sad to-night (His Majesty sitting dulled with the day's hunting), is told that the sight of it would cheer her. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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