Lexic.us

Definition of Dulled

1. Adjective. Having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure. "The benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond"

2. Adjective. Made dull or blunt.

3. Adjective. Deprived of color. "Greyed with the dust of the road"

Definition of Dulled

1. Verb. (past of dull) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dulled

1. dull [v] - See also: dull

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dulled

dulcour dule duledge duledges dules dulia dulias dull dull-minded dull-witted

dull as dishwater dull as ditchwater dullard dullardry dullards dulled (current term) duller dullest dullhead dullheads

dullier dulliest dulling dullish dullishly dullness dullnesses dulls dullsome dullsville

Literary usage of Dulled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"S The sense of it was like a dreadful whisper in her ear, which dulled all other consciousness; and she had not known that she was rising. ..."

2. The Reign of Law by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1873)
"We look on the facts of Nature and of human life through the dulled eyes of Custom and Traditional Opinion. And when some misery worse than others forces ..."

3. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Second Epistle of St. Paul to by Alfred Plummer (1915)
"But their minds were dulled.' The d\\a looks back to the preceding ^77. ... Nor need we ask whether their minds were dulled by God, or by the evil one, ..."

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