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View definitions for dulls

dulls

verb as in abate

verb as in numb

verb as in pale

verb as in quell

verb as in whiten

verb as in stupefy

verb as in blear

verb as in dim

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Example Sentences

Aromas reveal more with the warmth, while the cold dulls them.

If time has a tendency to take some of the sting of the moment away, it dulls memories too.

The suggestion is that the ability to kill remotely dulls one's moral sensibilities.

To ourself in this: but now break off; too much Taken at once of the most curious viands, Dulls the sharp edge of appetite.

Army life dulls the sensibilities to the spectacle of suffering.

It is not that it dulls our moral sense, but it gives us a peculiar tolerance of its own.

Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing.

Look, for all the cloud that now veils thy gaze and dulls mortal vision with damp encircling mist, I will rend from before thee.

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On this page you'll find 842 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dulls, such as: anesthetic/anaesthetic, balmy, calming, deadening, dozy, and drowsy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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