Definition of blunt

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Blunt (v. t.) 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..

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Obtund :: Obtund (v. t.) To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall..
Probe-pointed :: Probe-pointed (a.) Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.
Bluntness :: Bluntness (n.) Abruptness of address; rude plainness.
Obtundent :: Obtundent (n.) A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent..
Hebetate :: Hebetate (a.) Having a dull or blunt and soft point.
Style :: Style (v. t.) An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax..
Auricularia :: Auricularia (n. pl.) A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix..
Blunt :: Blunt (n.) Money.
But :: But (n.) The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt..
Bluntish :: Bluntish (a.) Somewhat blunt.
Style :: Style (v. t.) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
Dullness :: Dullness (n.) The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness..
Obtunder :: Obtunder (n.) That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility..
Stub :: Stub (n.) A pen with a short, blunt nib..
Hammerhead :: Hammerhead (n.) An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus); -- so called from its large blunt nozzle.
Unedge :: Unedge (v. t.) To deprive of the edge; to blunt.
Obtusion :: Obtusion (n.) The act or process of making obtuse or blunt.
Downright :: Downright (a.) Plain; direct; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way..
Brusqueness :: Brusqueness (n.) Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; bluntness.
Bodkin :: Bodkin (n.) A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle..
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