Blunted Synonyms and Antonyms

Make numb or insensitive
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dulled
  2. benumbed
  3. numbed
To render less sensitive
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dulled
  2. numbed
  3. desensitized
  4. deadened
  5. benumbed
Make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. deadened
Made dull or blunt
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dulled

Blunted Sentence Examples

  • Feelings cannot be habitually hidden without being more or less blunted.

  • Sensation is blunted.

  • But, as he wrote to Young in 1824, in him "that sensibility, or that vanity, which people call love of glory" had been blunted.

  • Even kestrels are hovering low, their sharp eyesight blunted by the vapors below them.

  • They also showed in lab experiments that EPO blunted the toxic effects of the drug haloperidol on brain cells.

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