What is "blunted"

Usage examples of "blunted".

Hand that dealt the blow, and when time blunted the keen edge of her feelings her face became as sweet and mild, though not so lightsome, as before.

Tommen a blunted silver longsword with a leaf-shaped blade, crafted to fit an eight-year-old hand.

Guardsmen walked the walls, and knights and men-at-arms were training with blunted weapons.

The stallions slammed together, the blunted axehead smashed against the scarred blue breastplate.

Whether she was daunted and confused in her own conscience by the outcome, so evil and disastrous, of the reparation to Rogers which she had forced her husband to make, or whether her perceptions had been blunted and darkened by the appeals which Rogers had now used, it would be difficult to say.

That warning had blunted, however slightly, the surge of panic which even the most experienced armsmen must feel under totally unexpected attack.

Even blunted by layers of cloth, the sensation was enough to make his blood pound like thunder through his body.

Just watching it made him feel dizzy and sent dull stabs of light through his head, like blunted knifeblades.

Whether she was daunted and confused in her own conscience by the outcome, so evil and disastrous, of the reparation to Rogers which she had forced her husband to make, or whether her perceptions had been blunted and darkened by the appeals which Rogers had now used, it would be difficult to say.