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dulled

vb. (en-past of: dull)

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dulled
  1. adj. having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure; "the mind of the audience is becoming dulled"; "the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond" [syn: benumbed]

  2. made dull or blunt [syn: blunted]

  3. deprived of color; "colors dulled by too much sun"; "grayed with the dust of the road" [syn: grayed]

Usage examples of "dulled".

He saw old Gely and his wife, his daughters, Marie the maid, and the little concierge: it seemed to him that they looked at him strangely, curiously, with some sorrowful sad knowledge in their eyes, and a nameless numb excitement gripped him, dulled his heart.

The image dulled to a searing ache, and Hishn pivoted, lunging back toward the boulder.

The drink had dulled the pain for a few days, but that pain had had to be faced at the end of it all.

The long imprisonment, the privations of hunger, the scourging by the elements, the death of four out of every five of our number had indeed dulled and stupefied us--bred an indifference to our own suffering and a seeming callosity to that of others, but there still burned in our hearts, and in the hearts of every one about us, a dull, sullen, smoldering fire of hate and defiance toward everything Rebel, and a lust for revenge upon those who had showered woes upon our heads.

The misery they inflicted was not the motive of their schemes, but an unpleasant incident, and usually the sufferers were men of other races and religions, for whom sympathy had been dulled by long antagonism.

His very presence at the councils of the Moot Officers dulled the bright eye and crushed the eager green shoot.