BLUNTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blunted mean? 

• BLUNTED (adjective)
  The adjective BLUNTED has 1 sense:

1. made dull or blunt

  Familiarity information: BLUNTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUNTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made dull or blunt

Synonyms:

blunted; dulled

Similar:

dull (not having a sharp edge or point)

 Context examples 

"That's why he nearly blunted my claws," said the Lion.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

It has a lean, blunted, wedge-shaped head that is flat on top. The trim, but muscular, body is slightly longer than it is tall.

(Collie, NCI Thesaurus)

The direct effects of GH on bone, which are poorly understood, also are blunted.

(Food Intake and Energy Homeostasis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The spur of ambition was blunted; he had no vitality with which to feel the prod of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His nerves had become blunted, numb, while his mind was filled with weird visions and delicious dreams.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Ravenous, and now very faint, I devoured a spoonful or two of my portion without thinking of its taste; but the first edge of hunger blunted, I perceived I had got in hand a nauseous mess; burnt porridge is almost as bad as rotten potatoes; famine itself soon sickens over it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

What walks I took alone, down muddy lanes, in the bad winter weather, carrying that parlour, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone in it, everywhere: a monstrous load that I was obliged to bear, a daymare that there was no possibility of breaking in, a weight that brooded on my wits, and blunted them!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A laugh went up at my appearance,—a laugh that was not lessened or softened by the dead man stretched and grinning on the deck before us; a laugh that was as rough and harsh and frank as the sea itself; that arose out of coarse feelings and blunted sensibilities, from natures that knew neither courtesy nor gentleness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She would not voluntarily give unnecessary pain to any one, and though I may deceive myself, I cannot but think that for me, for my feelings, she would—Hers are faults of principle, Fanny; of blunted delicacy and a corrupted, vitiated mind.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)