Definition of blunt

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Blunt (a.) Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.

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Style :: Style (v. t.) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
Hammerhead :: Hammerhead (n.) An African fruit bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus); -- so called from its large blunt nozzle.
Bluntly :: Bluntly (adv.) In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility..
Stubbed :: Stubbed (a.) Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse..
Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife..
Retund :: Retund (v. t.) To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence..
Rocket :: Rocket (n.) A blunt lance head used in the joust.
Rebate :: Rebate (v. t.) To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise..
Acute :: Acute (a.) Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf..
Bodkin :: Bodkin (n.) A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a tape needle..
Probe-pointed :: Probe-pointed (a.) Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.
Blunt :: Blunt (v. t.) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings..
Mull :: Mull (v. t.) To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt.
Bluntness :: Bluntness (n.) Abruptness of address; rude plainness.
Bruise :: Bruise (n.) An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit..
Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen.
Efflower :: Efflower (v. t.) To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather..
Djerrid :: Djerrid (n.) A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries.
Curette :: Curette (n.) A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb..
Brusque :: Brusque (a.) Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style..
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