Word Finder - dulled

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To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.

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Years of misuse have dulled the tools.

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To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.

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He drinks to dull the pain.

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To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.

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A razor will dull with use.

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To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

Since area rugs can be expensive, and their decorative qualities can be dulled by dirt, you'll need to frequently treat or clean them to keep them looking their best.

Honey Bee non-stick craft scissors are a particularly wise choice for scrapbookers, since they are coated with a special material that prevents them from becoming dulled by sticky adhesive residue.

They may cough; have yellowed skin, eyes, or fingers; wrinkle prematurely; have a dulled sense of smell and taste; or have brittle hair.

Perhaps some of the Silver Oak mystique has dulled over the last several years, but that is primarily with a few critics who don't line up for their six-bottle allocation in February.

If the electric razor did not initially cause skin irritations or cuts, but has started to recently, the problem could be due to dulled razor blades.

The senses can become dulled if they are exposed to prolonged periods of intense activity.

Needles used for piercing should always be a new piece of equipment, since they are dulled by use.

As you listen, one thing will become clear - time has not dulled the power of this music one iota.

The sight dulled her desire.

The top opened of its own volition, revealing an aged stone dagger with dulled edges and a chipped stone hilt.

The trickle of a familiar stream heightened her dulled senses, and she forced herself onward, through the brush and to the stream.

She was escorted with great ceremony to Moscow in 1728 and exhibited to the people attired in the splendid, old-fashioned robes of a tsaritsa; but years of rigid seclusion had dulled her wits, and her best friends soon convinced themselves that a convent was a much more suitable place for her than a throne.

Metallic sodium possesses a silvery lustre, but on exposure to moist air the surface is rapidly dulled by a layer of the hydroxide.

The rays had to struggle through a disturbing medium; they reached him refracted, dulled and discoloured by the thick gloom which had settled on his soul, and, though they might be sufficiently clear to guide him, were too dim to cheer him.

He was compelled, however, to add that the lustre of his pontificate would be for ever dulled by the tragic fall of Constantinople, which the Turks took in 1453.

She twisted to see the Grey God, whose ashen face and dulled eyes were trained on the still body beside her.

The effect he had on human women was dulled on female Guardians, but she sensed his strange draw nonetheless and stared at him.

But his old magic was dulled by the unanswered questions left over from Clapham Common.

Hence, suppose genuine prayer to have come into being, it is exceedingly apt to degenerate into a mere piece of formalism; and yet, whereas its intrinsic meaning is dulled by repetition according to a well-known pyschological law, its virtue is thereby hardly lessened for the undeveloped religious consciousness, which holds the saving grace to lie mainly in the repetition itself.

When the cutter has dulled, it is best to replace the shaving head.

She sighed, her instincts too dulled by beer to warn her.