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Dulled   /dəld/   Listen
Dulled

adjective
1.
Having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure.  Synonym: benumbed.  "The benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond"
2.
Made dull or blunt.  Synonym: blunted.
3.
Deprived of color.  Synonym: greyed.  "Greyed with the dust of the road"


Dull

verb
(past & past part. duller; pres. part. dulling)
1.
Make dull in appearance.
2.
Become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness.
3.
Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping.  Synonyms: damp, dampen, muffle, mute, tone down.
4.
Make numb or insensitive.  Synonyms: benumb, blunt, numb.
5.
Make dull or blunt.  Synonym: blunt.  Antonym: sharpen.
6.
Become less interesting or attractive.  Synonym: pall.
7.
Make less lively or vigorous.



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"Dulled" Quotes from Famous Books



... taste of the brine on a child's lips! Nowadays, I can take holiday when I will, and go whithersoever it pleases me; but that salt kiss of the sea air I shall never know again. My senses are dulled; I cannot get so near to Nature; I have a sorry dread of her clouds, her winds, and must walk with tedious circumspection where once I ran and leapt exultingly. Were it possible, but for one half-hour, to plunge and bask in the sunny surf, to roll on the silvery sand-hills, ...
— The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft • George Gissing
... had grown taciturn because he was always contradicted. The want of congenial company and fellows-in-misfortune gradually dulled his brain; his nerves went to pieces; he neglected his appearance and ...
— Married • August Strindberg
... walks with glad, majestic mien, Proud of her knowledge gained, E'en while she mourns from having seen Man's life so dulled and pained. ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 • Various
... that the man was not in his right senses, or that the blow he had received had so dulled his bump of caution, that he could no longer take care of himself; for the next moment he stumbled over a little child, and would have been hurt severely if I had not broken his fall, by catching his arm before he again measured his length on the deck. My ...
— Life in the Clearings versus the Bush • Susanna Moodie
... was a sort of mockery of abundance. Dabs of vegetables, sauces, preserves, meats, both hot and cold, in cheap little china dishes fairly elbowed each other for room. It would have dulled a keener appetite ...
— The Land of Promise • D. Torbett


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