[
US
/ˈdəɫd/
]
[ UK /dˈʌld/ ]
[ UK /dˈʌld/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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deprived of color
colors dulled by too much sun
greyed with the dust of the road -
having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure
the mind of the audience is becoming dulled
the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond - made dull or blunt
How To Use dulled In A Sentence
- The blue glow dulled to blue-black, pulsing like a bruise, an open sore on the solar system.
- A pained expression dulled his features, and he shook his head. One Summer Evening
- The final observance of the day is to carve the names of every woman who broke my heart into my arms and stomach, my senses dulled by the whiskey nog.
- He also refused to take painkillers while working because he said they dulled his performance and he must have been in agony. The Sun
- At the end of the season their leaves are frequently dulled and disfigured by powdery mildew.
- John is old and waiting to die but the prospect of death hasn't dulled his appetite for invective or his irreverence for the great and the good.
- His elusive palette of muddy plums, acidic yellows and sunrise oranges appears to have been influenced by his countryman Per Kirkeby, with whom he shares a wintry, dulled light.
- When the house lights dulled and the concert was approximately to begin, the mother returned to her seat and unconcealed namely the child was lacking.
- Their granaries were overflowing with plenitude; yet they wanted to keep the sharp famine-edge of their love undulled. WHEN GOD LAUGHS
- On surveying the organizational ranks, they see only low morale, divisiveness, cynicism, and dulled thinking.