grow dull

Alas, despite appealing actors, handsome drawing rooms and impressive estates, “the story’s lone joke and its grinding literalness grow dull,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.

Their lips crack, and their eyes grow dull.

After hours slicing through thousands of birds, knives grow dull, skid off the cold slippery parts, stabbing workers in the hand or arm.

When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped.

The Zombies left a statement: “Spring is crullest curlie ungood time, and plantz grow dull roots,” noted an unidentified spokesperson.