bluntedadj.
Made blunt; having point or edge dulled; also figurative.
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the world > space > shape > bluntness > [adjective] > made blunt
rabattued1562
rebated1574
stubbed1616
blunted1697
stubby1843
the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > rendered emotionless
dulledc1480
benumbed1547
dullen1602
bedeaded1656
case-hardened1836
narcotized1846
apathized1852
blunted1853
de-emotionalized1957
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 426 Part New grind the blunted Ax.
1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 349 With the blunted point of a Needle.
1853 F. Hall in Leslie's Misc. II. 176 A man whose moral judgment has become altogether blunted.
1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 14 The blunted souls by lust defiled.
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adj.1697