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Definition of Blunted
1. Adjective. Made dull or blunt.
Definition of Blunted
1. Verb. (past of blunt) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blunted
1. blunt [v] - See also: blunt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blunted
Literary usage of Blunted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... to gain tho leadership of the commons, both blunted the spirit of measures in
tho camp, and for tho tint time were embroiled with one another in the ..."
2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale (1849)
"... of the commons, both blunted the spirit of measures in the camp, and for the
first time were embroiled with one another in the affairs of the city. ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1838)
"... their weapons blunted and their arms aweary, but their hearts insatiate of
carnage, from the hard-pressed pursuit. PILGRIM SONG. OVEH the mountain wave, ..."
4. The Works of John Marston by John Marston, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1856)
"... Of reprehensive language is even blunted To full contempt; since vice is now
term'd fashion, And most are growne to ill even with defence, ..."
5. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"44 Her weapons blunted, and extinct her/ WF 418 And let thf past and future f.
thy brain D. iii. 66 Why, Nature, dost thou soonest/ O. iii. ii Whose ..."
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