different between blunt vs weaken
blunt
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /bl?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt (attested in the derivative Blunta (male personal name) (> English surnames Blunt, Blount)), probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to doze”) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde).
Adjective
blunt (comparative blunter, superlative bluntest)
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- the blunt admission that he had never liked my company
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
- I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
- December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
Synonyms
- (having a thick edge or point): dull, pointless, coarse
- (dull in understanding): stupid, obtuse
- (abrupt in address): curt, short, rude, brusque, impolite, uncivil, harsh
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
blunt (plural blunts)
- A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
- A short needle with a strong point.
- (smoking) A marijuana cigar.
- 2005: to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!” — Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 461)
- (Britain, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
- Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt […]
- A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English blunten, blonten, from the adjective (see above).
Verb
blunt (third-person singular simple present blunts, present participle blunting, simple past and past participle blunted)
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
- It blunted my appetite.
- My feeling towards her have been blunted.
Synonyms
- blunten
Translations
See also
- bluntly
- dull
Old French
Etymology
From Frankish *blund, from Proto-Germanic *blundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?lend?-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blont/, [bl?nt]
Adjective
blunt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular blunde)
- Alternative form of blont
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weaken
English
Etymology
weak +? -en
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?wik?n/
- Rhymes: -i?k?n
Verb
weaken (third-person singular simple present weakens, present participle weakening, simple past and past participle weakened)
- (transitive) To make weaker or less strong.
- (intransitive) To become weaker or less strong.
Translations
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