Blunted can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| blunted - made dull or blunt | ||
Verb |
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| blunt - make less sharp; "blunt the knives" | ||
| blunt - make less intense; "blunted emotions" | ||
| blunt - make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound" | ||
| blunt - make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" | ||
| blunt - make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" |
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| 1. | verb | I blunted one. | |
| 2. | verb | She blunted the knife. | |
| 3. | verb | Blunt the knives. | |
| 4. | adj. | Blunt talking and straight shooting. | |
| 5. | adj. | A blunt New England farmer. | |
| 6. | adj. | The blunt truth. | |
| 7. | adj. | A blunt instrument. | |
| 8. | adj. | Thick marks made by a blunt pencil. | |
| 9. | adj. | He is very blunt in his manner. | |
| 10. | adj. | Y'know we're short of money to have fun and ... Well to be blunt, gimme! | |
| 11. | adj. | My sword may be blunt, but that's more than enough for someone like you. | |
| 12. | adj. | The knife was so blunt that I could not cut the meat with it and I resorted to my pocket knife. | |
| 13. | adj. | That knife was so blunt I couldn't use it to cut the meat so I had to rely on my pocket knife. | |
| 14. | adj. | Tom is very blunt. | |
| 15. | adj. | One of the clichés of each detective story is that the victim has obviously been hit "with a blunt object". | |
| 16. | adj. | He was killed by a blunt weapon. | |
| 17. | adj. | A love triangle has at least two blunt angles. | |
| 18. | adj. | The pencil is blunt. It needs sharpening. |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| I blunted one. | |
| She blunted the knife. | |
| Blunt the knives. |
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| adj. | |
| Blunt talking and straight shooting. |
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| A blunt New England farmer. |
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| The blunt truth. |
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| A blunt instrument. |
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| Thick marks made by a blunt pencil. |
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| He is very blunt in his manner. | |
| Y'know we're short of money to have fun and ... Well to be blunt, gimme! | |
| My sword may be blunt, but that's more than enough for someone like you. | |
| The knife was so blunt that I could not cut the meat with it and I resorted to my pocket knife. | |
| That knife was so blunt I couldn't use it to cut the meat so I had to rely on my pocket knife. | |
| Tom is very blunt. | |
| One of the clichés of each detective story is that the victim has obviously been hit "with a blunt object". | |
| He was killed by a blunt weapon. | |
| A love triangle has at least two blunt angles. | |
| The pencil is blunt. It needs sharpening. | |