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blunted

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1. blunted - Adjective

2. blunted - Verb

4. blunted - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Blunt

Source: Webster's dictionary

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These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. Herbert Read

After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years. J. G. Ballard

Young people know less than we do, but they understand more; their perception has not yet been blunted by compromise, fatigue, rationalization, and the mistaking of mere respectability for morality. Sydney J. Harris

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. Yann Martel

If you ever think I am over-exuberant, too unconventional, too outspoken, remember that life has not blunted me nor made me blasé or indifferent, that all things are still a joy and of interest to me because of that secret source of enchantment that flows within me - the joy of life! Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania

The lance never blunted the pen, nor the pen the lance. Nicaraguan Proverb

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