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Dulled

adjective

1.

Having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure. Synonym: benumbed. "The benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond"

2.

Made dull or blunt. Synonym: blunted.

3.

Deprived of color. Synonym: greyed. "Greyed with the dust of the road"

Dull

verb

(past & past part. duller; pres. part. dulling)

1.

Make dull in appearance.

2.

Become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness.

3.

Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping. Synonyms: damp, dampen, muffle, mute, tone down.

4.

Make numb or insensitive. Synonyms: benumb, blunt, numb.

5.

Make dull or blunt. Synonym: blunt.

6.

Become less interesting or attractive. Synonym: pall.

7.

Make less lively or vigorous.

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"Dulled" Quotes from Famous Books

... be ready to suffer. She cannot allow her emotions to be dulled or polluted, for these are to create her life's atmosphere, apart from which her world would be dark and dead. This leaves her heart without any protection of insensibility, at the mercy of the hurts and insults of life. Women of India, like women everywhere, have their share of suffering, ...

— Creative Unity • Rabindranath Tagore

... shepherds; the loneliness and silence of the night; the sudden, startling brightness that shone about them, and enveloped their angel visitant, who kindly soothed their alarm with "Fear not;" and the outburst of angelic song, unheard by the ears dulled with sleep, but overpowering these astonished men. "O happy shepherds! who alone among men, were ever privileged to hear the songs ...

— Christmas in Legend and Story - A Book for Boys and Girls • Elva S. Smith

... filled with strange dreams; but as soon as the eyes open, and I regain consciousness and seem to begin life again, it is always the same figure before me, always the same presence filling my heart.... Formerly the day was dulled by the absence of the Lord. I used to wake invaded by all sorts of sad impressions, and I did not find him on my path. To-day he is with me; and the light cloudiness which covers things is not an obstacle to my communion with him. I feel the pressure of his hand, I feel something else ...

— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... as they set out together again soon after six. Rain had fallen in the night, yet not all the rain that there was overhead. There were still clouds hanging, mixed with the smoke from the chimneys; the hedges seemed dulled and black in spite of their green; the cinder path they walked on was depressing, the rain-fed road even more so. They passed a dozen men on their way to the pits, who made remarks on the three, and retaliation ...

— None Other Gods • Robert Hugh Benson

... among us who have not suffered from too early familiarity with the Bible and the conceptions of religion. Even for a man of really strong and independent intellect it may be many years before the precociously dulled feelings become fresh again, before the fetters of routine fall off, and he is enabled at last to approach the Bible with fresh receptivity and to realize, for the first time in his life, the treasures of art and beauty and divine wisdom it contains. But ...

— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

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