dulling
present participle ofdull
dull
verb[T]
uk/dʌl/us/dʌl/to make something lesssevere:
Homelesschildrensniffglueto dulltheirhungerpains.
Synonym
numb
Becoming and making less strong
- abate
- abatement
- adulterate
- adulterated
- adulteration
- emasculation
- enervate
- enervating
- enfeeble
- enfeebled
- fade
- hedge
- melt
- relieve
- sink
- totter
- tottering
- turn to jellyidiom
- wane
- waste away
Examplesofdulling
dulling
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The term lethargus was used to describe a contrasting condition, featuring listlessness, sleepiness, memory loss anddullingof the senses.
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The work simultaneously reinforced and negated the rhetoric of resistance and revolution espoused in the first two autobiographies,dullingits own effectiveness as a tool of social reform.
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Is she now actuallydullingthat signal and suggesting that we may well send in ground troops?
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Privately commissioned building has followed the public lead, and alas we have witnessed adullingand downgrading of the physical essence of our country.
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Public patronage can be very enlightened, but it can also bedullingand bureaucratic.
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It may be that these pills brighten their brains, as opposed todullingthem, but they seem to brighten them just a bit over the top.
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Of course, it is right; how can it not be right to save at least two years of drudgery and ofdullingthe senses of children at school?
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It can not prevent smearing entirely withoutdullingand darkening the bright and fresh colors of pastels.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This increase in adrenal output raises the physical strength and endurance levels of the person and sharpens their senses, whiledullingthe sensation of pain.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Another frequently implicated factor is "increased mental acuity" associated with smoking, important because of the mentaldullingfound over time in schizophrenia.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There is nothing moredullingthan hours spent mindlessly going over finger patterns.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They can be used on very thin sheet metal, but metals tend to cause premature bit wear anddulling.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The frozen foods were the most popular, and they enjoyed spicy foods due to head congestion from weightlessnessdullingtheir senses of taste and smell.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This process realigns the edge, correcting fordullingcauses such as a rolled edge.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He wrote that opium was the strongest known drug fordullingthe senses and for inducing sleep.
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- internal organ
- internal passport
- internal pressure
- internal process
- internal rate of return
- internal-rate-of-return
- internal reflection
- internal reform
- internal representation
- internal repression
- internal resistance
- internal revenue
- Internal Revenue Code
- internal-revenue-code
- internal-revenue-service
- internal review
- internal rotation
- internal search
- intuitive interface
- intuitive judgment
- intuitive knowledge
- intuitively
- intuitiveness
- intuitive notion
- intuitive perception