From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
2. reduced in force or effectiveness. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blunt \Blunt\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Blunted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blunting}.]
1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt. --Shak.
2. 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: made dull or blunt [syn: {dulled}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "blunted": abrupt, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, bluntish, dull, dull-edged, dull-pointed, dulled, dullish, edgeless, faired, obtuse, pointless, rounded, smoothed, unedged, unpointed, unsharp, unsharpened
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