What is the meaning of blunted?

verb

  • Make less intense.
    • usage: "blunted emotions"
  • Make numb or insensitive.
    • usage: "The shock numbed her senses"
  • Make dull or blunt.
    • usage: "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
  • Make less sharp.
    • usage: "blunt the knives"
  • Make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation.
    • usage: "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"

adjective

  • Made dull or blunt.
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