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Meaning of blunt

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blunt

Pronunciation:/blʌnt//blʌnt/

noun

Definitions

  1. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.

  2. A short needle with a strong point.

  3. (smoking) A marijuana cigar.

    Example: 2005: to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!” — Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 461)

  4. Money

adjective

Definitions

  1. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.

  2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.

  3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.

    Example: the blunt admission that he had never liked my company

  4. Hard to impress or penetrate.

blunt

Pronunciation:/blʌnt//blʌnt/

verb

Definitions

  1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.

  2. To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of

    Example: It blunted my appetite.