Crossword clues for dulling
dulling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dull \Dull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Duller; p. pr. & vb. n. Dulling.]
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To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. ``This . . . dulled their swords.''
--Bacon.Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
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To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
Those [drugs] she has Will stupefy and dull the sense a while.
--Shak.Use and custom have so dulled our eyes.
--Trench. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish. ``Dulls the mirror.''
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To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through continuance.
--Hooker.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of dull English)
Usage examples of "dulling".
The sky overhead was flat grey, dulling the green of the fields on either side of the broad road of Imperial poured-stone.
As she searched from fire to fire, she forced it, blank, wide, dulling like snow-blindness.
Another second and the shadow of death crossed the consciousness of the Director of the Outer Stations, dulling his senses.
When he opened his eyes he saw Chara swimming towards him, the paleness of fright dulling the bronze of her sunburn.
He sat staring at me, a sick pallor on his round baby-face and a gray glaze dulling his rust-colored eyes.