The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blunt \Blunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blunting.]
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
--Shak.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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of blunt English)
Usage examples of "blunting".
It is not enough blunting the swordwe must sever the hand wielding it.
They've been blunting their weapons of latea bad sign when they do that.
It is not enough blunting the sword - we must sever the hand wielding it.
They've been blunting their weapons of late - a bad sign when they do that.
The blunting allowed knights to practice the joust without serious injury.
The blunting on his lance will break away when it strikes your shoulder and the poison used on the tip is potent enough to kill anyone within a day.
The razor-sharp blade emerged from the dirt, the blunting shattered to reveal its false end.
But most worrisome was the feeling in my head as if a fog of wool enfolded every wispy thought, blunting it, stifling it.
Their swords, befitting the ritual nature of the challenge, had blunting fields on them and the battle was decided on points.
There will be a severe blunting of affect, to the extent you may well see a shallow, famous euphoria.
I would estimate eighteen months to two years before he reaches a total blunting, a vegetative state.
It kept exhausted men at Action Stations all night long, blunting, irreparably perhaps, the last vestiges of the knife-edged vigilance on which the only hope, it was never more, of survival in the Arctic depended.
With an organisation comes delegation of authority, dispersal of concentration, blunting of initiative and lowered secrecy: and any and all of those mitigate against the chances of final success.
Oh, we cut swift and deep when we must, but that's another kind of blunting.