blunted

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
blunted
    adj 1: made dull or blunt [syn: {blunted}, {dulled}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
blunted \blunted\ adj.
   1. made dull or blunt.

   Syn: dulled.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. reduced in force or effectiveness.
      [PJC]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Blunt \Blunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blunted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Blunting}.]
   1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to
      make blunt. --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of
      the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or
      susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
      [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "blunted":
      abrupt, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed,
      bluntish, dull, dull-edged, dull-pointed, dulled, dullish,
      edgeless, faired, obtuse, pointless, rounded, smoothed, unedged,
      unpointed, unsharp, unsharpened
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