Blunt
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A fencer's foil. A short needle with a strong point. A marijuana cigar.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt. 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.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; 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. Hard to impress or penetrate. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive
Example sentence: A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
Numb
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cause to become numb.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Without the power of sensation and motion or feeling; insensible.
Example sentence: We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.