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Blunt
  • (a.) Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
  • (a.) Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.
  • (a.) Hard to impress or penetrate.
  • (a.) Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
  • (n.) A fencer's foil.
  • (n.) A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.
  • (n.) Money.
  • (v. t.) To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make 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.

    OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (See Project Gutenburg.)


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