▸ adjective: (now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form. ▸ adjective: (botany, zoology) Blunt, or rounded at the extremity. ▸ adjective: (geometry, specifically, of an angle) Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°. ▸ adjective: (geometry, by ellipsis) Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle. ▸ adjective: Intellectually dull or dim-witted. ▸ adjective: Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted. ▸ adjective: Indirect or circuitous. ▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To dull or reduce an emotion or a physical state.
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