Usually means: Reducing sharpness, brightness, or sensitivity.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. dulling: Merriam-Webster
  2. dulling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dulling: Vocabulary.com
  4. dulling: Wordnik
  5. dulling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dulling: Wiktionary
  7. Dulling, dulling: Dictionary.com
  8. dulling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Dulling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Dulling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. dulling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. dulling: FreeDictionary.org
  13. dulling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. dulling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dulling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dulling: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. dulling: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dulling: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Dull)

adjective:  Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
adjective:  Boring; not exciting or interesting.
adjective:  Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
adjective:  Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
adjective:  Sluggish, listless.
adjective:  Bored, depressed, down.
adjective:  Cloudy, overcast.
adjective:  Insensible; unfeeling.
adjective:  Heavy; lifeless; inert.
adjective:  (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
adjective:  Not clear, muffled. (of a noise or sound)
verb:  (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
verb:  (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
verb:  To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
noun:  A surname. of Scottish and German origin.
noun:  A village in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland.
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