"blunting" in the verb sense
1. blunt
make less intense
"blunted emotions"
2. numb, benumb, blunt, dull
make numb or insensitive
"The shock numbed her senses"
3. dull, blunt
make dull or blunt
"Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
4. blunt
make less sharp
"blunt the knives"
5. deaden, blunt
make less lively, intense, or vigorous impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
"Terror blunted her feelings"
"deaden a sound"
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