blunt
/blʌnt/ verb C2- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of · It blunted my appetite.· My feeling towards her have been blunted.
He/she/it blunts · Past blunted · Past participle blunted · -ing form blunting
Verb forms
- Base form
- blunt
- He/she/it
- blunts
- Past
- blunted
- Past participle
- blunted
- -ing form
- blunting
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He is no tree trunk to sharpen thy blunt claws upon.
They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in the afternoon sun, admiring his beautiful new coat, for he had been in retirement for the last ten days changing his skin, and now he was very splendid--darting his big blunt-nosed head along the ground, and twisting the thirty feet of his body into fantastic knots and curves, and licking his lips as he thought of his dinner to come.
“That’s why he nearly blunted my claws,” said the Lion.
That razor brain blunted and rusted with inaction.
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