Blunts can be categorized as a 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" | ||
Noun |
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| blunts - Plural of blunt. |
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| 1. | verb | The old man spoke and, with a feeble throw, / at Pyrrhus with a harmless dart he drave. / The jarring metal blunts it, and below / the shield-boss, down it hangs, and foils the purposed blow. | |
| 2. | verb | Too much alcohol blunts our feelings. | |
| 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. |
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| The old man spoke and, with a feeble throw, / at Pyrrhus with a harmless dart he drave. / The jarring metal blunts it, and below / the shield-boss, down it hangs, and foils the purposed blow. | |
| Too much alcohol blunts our feelings. | |
| Blunt the knives. |
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| 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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