(a.) Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
(a.) Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.
(a.) Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
(a.) Hard to impress or penetrate.
(v. t.) To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
(v. t.) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
(n.) A fencer's foil.
(n.) A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.
(n.) Money.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hepatic enzyme elevations were more dramatic after blunt trauma, reflecting greater hepatocellular disruption.
(2) The Metoclopramide-induced secretion of prolactin and aldosterone was blunted in 6 patients pretreated with 200 mg ibopamine.
(3) The computer tomographic appearances of lesions of parenchymatous organs following blunt abdominal trauma are described in 13 patients (five liver, four renal, two splenic and two pancreatic injuries).
(4) Last November he bluntly warned EU chiefs he could, if he wished, “flood Europe” with refugees.
(5) Persons with clinical abdominal findings, shock, altered sensorium, and severe chest injuries after blunt trauma should undergo the procedure.
(6) Blunt trauma to the epigastrum may result in a retroperitoneal hematoma involving the head of the pancreas and descending duodenum.
(7) The changes included swelling, blunting, and flattening of epithelial foot processes, were accompanied by decreased stainability of glomerular anionic sites, and were largely reversed by subsequent perfusion with the polyanion heparin.
(8) Addition of Ni2+ prior to TRH blunted the component of the TRH-induced transient increase in [Ca2+]i dependent on influx of Ca2+.
(9) As previously reported, patients with affective disorders show a blunted GH response to clonidine.
(10) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
(11) A comparison of two different restriction enzymes, which cleave the plasmid with blunt or cohesive-ended double-strand breaks, did not reveal differences in repair fidelity.
(12) The prognosis was better following blunt trauma, stretch injuries and after a spontaneous onset.
(13) Seventeen (77%) of the injuries were due to penetrating trauma and five (23%) were due to blunt trauma.
(14) The cortisol response to insulin-induced hypoglycemia and exogenous ACTH appeared to be blunted in these patients.
(15) Vagal blockade reversibly inhibited the rise of plasma PP and significantly blunted the elevation of plasma VIP.
(16) But the drugs chief, Julio Calzada, is blunt: " For 50 years, we have tried to tackle the drug problem with only one tool – penalisation – and that has failed .
(17) Average increases in resting metabolic expenditure for a group of patients following elective operation, skeletal trauma, skeletal trauma with head injury, blunt trauma, sepsis and burns were determined by indirect calorimetry and protein need by urinary nitrogen losses over extended time periods.
(18) The indication for angiography in children accident patients with blunt trauma must be set up carefully.
(19) Arterial occlusion or stenosis due to blunt trauma is rare.
(20) Also, the initial rise in V1 was blunted or blocked in all subjects.
Blurt
Definition:
(v. t.) To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.
Example Sentences:
(1) There has been much pointing-and-chortling of late at the Daily Mail's embarrassing failure to stoke national outrage over a mildly irreverent comment about the Queen's sex life blurted out by Jack Whitehall on a festive panel show.
(2) Blurted out to a person he hoped to impress by whatever means, his words here — and the quickly denied allegations about Australian players — can be dismissed as pub talk.
(3) Accompanied by prolonged silences, it makes the recipients go weak at the knees and blurt out bumbling apologies, as we saw with Nixon's cathartic admission – and then, of course, forgiveness.
(4) However, after persistent questioning, I blurted out a response: “I don’t know.
(5) When he told her "I'm a fan," she blurted, "I'm going to be naked in a movie!"
(6) Then her mother blurted out: "Dad's seeing someone."
(7) When a reporter doorstepped him three years ago, he blurted out: "You don't have a gun.
(8) "I started supporting FC Barcelona after reading George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia," blurts Kenneth Fomenky.
(9) I would just blurt out, "I breastfed until I was five!"
(10) This is not exactly a new strategy for Republicans – it is reminiscent, for example, of the moment when George W Bush, interrogated by Trevor McDonald about pollution, blurted: “Well, I just beg to differ with every figure you’ve got.” But Trump’s version is more radical: an epistemological scorched-earth policy in which no information can be trusted except what issues from the pouting lips of the Dear Leader himself.
(11) A minister blurts out something or a document slips loose.
(12) I remember once, at the end of a long night, blurting out to a publisher that the story was made up.
(13) One of them blurted out, "That's Dr. Carnegie, the first Black nurse!"
(14) Under the threat of an investigation by the lord chancellor, Lord Dilhorne, Profumo blurted out the truth to his wife Valerie over lunch in Venice.
(15) Instead, the Republican nominee blurted out four words: “That makes me smart.” For once Trump – serial liar and alleged serial groper – had inadvertently revealed a great truth.
(16) Eventually I crack, and blurtingly ask about his eye.
(17) The taxidermist invited me to guess again, but before I could he blurted: "It's a Pygmy!"
(18) Elizabeth is prone to blurting out aphorisms, such as "it's easier to give a blow job than make coffee" and "you should be just as happy with the breasts you have as you are with the futility of existence".
(19) In her acceptance speech, she expressed her sympathies – even if, in the heat of the moment, she blurted out that "education is a privilege not a right", which might well be taken as a prophecy.
(20) With his penchant for mooning and blurting out risqué spoonerisms, Crayon Shin-chan has delighted Japanese children, and infuriated their parents, for more than two decades.