"blunt" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /blʌnt/ [UK, US] Audio: En-us-blunt.ogg [US] Forms: blunter [comparative], bluntest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ʌnt Etymology: From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt (attested in the derivative Blunta (male personal name) (> English surnames Blunt, Blount)), probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to doze”) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|blunt}} Middle English blunt, {{m|enm|blont}} blont, {{der|en|ang|*blunt}} Old English *blunt, {{m|ang|Blunta|pos=male personal name}} Blunta (male personal name), {{m|en|Blunt}} Blunt, {{m|en|Blount}} Blount, {{gloss|> English surnames <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Blunt</i>, <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Blount</i>}} (> English surnames Blunt, Blount), {{der|en|gmq|-}} North Germanic, {{cog|non|blunda|t=to doze}} Old Norse blunda (“to doze”), {{cog|is|blunda}} Icelandic blunda, {{cog|sv|blunda}} Swedish blunda, {{cog|da|blunde}} Danish blunde, {{gloss|> Icelandic <i class="Latn mention" lang="is">blunda</i>, Swedish <i class="Latn mention" lang="sv">blunda</i>, Danish <i class="Latn mention" lang="da">blunde</i>}} (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde) Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} blunt (comparative blunter, superlative bluntest)
  1. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp. Synonyms (having a thick edge or point): dull, pointless, coarse Translations (having a thick edge or point, not sharp): dumpoe (Aklanon), ἀμβλύς (amblús) (Ancient Greek), κωφός (kōphós) (Ancient Greek), كَلِيل (kalīl) (Arabic), բութ (butʿ) (Armenian), үтмәҫ (ütməś) (Bashkir), тупаҫ (tupaś) (Bashkir), тупаҡ (tupaq) (Bashkir), kamuts (Basque), тупы́ (tupý) (Belarusian), тъп (tǎp) (Bulgarian), притъпен (pritǎpen) (Bulgarian), တုံး (tum:) (Burmese), rom (Catalan), (Chinese Mandarin), (dùn) (Chinese Mandarin), tupý [masculine] (Czech), sløv (Danish), stomp (Dutch), bot (Dutch), malakra (Esperanto), nüri (Estonian), tylppä (Finnish), tylsä (Finnish), émoussé (French), moucho (Galician), obtuso (Galician), mouco (Galician), ბლაგვი (blagvi) (Georgian), stumpf (German), abgestumpft (German), αμβλύς (amvlýs) (Greek), קֵהֶה (qehé) [masculine] (Hebrew), tompa (Hungarian), sljór (Icelandic), tumpul (Indonesian), majal (Indonesian), tyltsä (Ingrian), nyrhi (Ingrian), spuntato (Italian), 鈍い (nibui) (alt: にぶい) (Japanese), រឹល (rɨl) (Khmer), 무딘 (mudin) (Korean), мокок (mokok) (Kyrgyz), obtusus (Latin), hebes (Latin), retusus (Latin), truls (Latvian), neass (Latvian), bukas (Lithuanian), тап (tap) (Macedonian), tumpul (Malay), neuvirragh (Manx), angheyre (Manx), kotehe (Maori), pūnuki (Maori), hāpūpū (Maori), pūhoi (Maori), nguture (Maori), pūnguru (Maori), pūhuki (Maori), kuruhuki (Maori), tūnguru (Maori), kiporo (Maori), мохоо (moxoo) (Mongolian), stump (Norwegian Bokmål), stump (Norwegian Nynorsk), کند (kond) (Persian), tępy (Polish), cego (Portuguese), rombo (Portuguese), obtuso (Portuguese), tocit (Romanian), neascutit (Romanian), bont (Romanian), тупо́й (tupój) (Russian), туп [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), tup [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), tupý (Slovak), top (Slovene), romo (Spanish), obtuso (Spanish), trubbig (Swedish), tumpul (Tausug), küt (Turkish), тупи́й (tupýj) (Ukrainian), cùn (Vietnamese), pŵl (Welsh), di-awch (Welsh), xırt (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-blunt-en-adj-GAaDQFKC Disambiguation of 'having a thick edge or point': 95 1 1 1 1 Disambiguation of 'having a thick edge or point, not sharp': 96 1 1 1 1
  2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute. Synonyms (dull in understanding): stupid, obtuse Translations (dull in understanding; slow of discernment): բութ (butʿ) (Armenian), тъп (tǎp) (Bulgarian), глупав (glupav) (Bulgarian), sløv (Danish), hidasälyinen (Finnish), sot (French), obtus (French), idiot (French), mouco (Galician), obtuso (Galician), stumpf (German), träge (German), αμβλύς (amvlýs) (Greek), ottuso [masculine] (Italian), 무딘 (mudin) (Korean), тап (tap) (Macedonian), мохоо (moxoo) (Mongolian), کند (kond) (Persian), obtuso (Portuguese), тупо́й (tupój) (Russian), obtuso (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-blunt-en-adj-Ls2AzcKY Disambiguation of 'dull in understanding': 5 84 4 2 4 Disambiguation of 'dull in understanding; slow of discernment': 1 89 3 1 6
  3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech. Categories (topical): Personality Synonyms (abrupt in address): curt, short, rude, brusque, impolite, uncivil, harsh Translations (abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious): рязък (rjazǎk) (Bulgarian), безцеремонен (bezceremonen) (Bulgarian), otsekohene (Estonian), suorasukainen (Finnish), abrupt (French), ríspeto (Galician), brusco (Galician), ungehobelt (German), unverblümt (German), ストレート (sutorēto) (Japanese), груб (grub) (Macedonian), на́гол (nágol) (Macedonian), о́тсечен (ótsečen) (Macedonian), о́стар (óstar) (Macedonian), bezceremonialny (Polish), brusco (Portuguese), гру́бый (grúbyj) (Russian), brusco (Spanish), di-flewyn-ar-dafod (Welsh), plaen (Welsh), diseremoni (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-blunt-en-adj-C1tkXdz0 Disambiguation of Personality: 7 3 22 3 21 12 3 14 3 9 0 1 Disambiguation of 'abrupt in address': 4 6 85 1 4 Disambiguation of 'abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious': 2 3 91 2 3
  4. Hard to impress or penetrate. Translations (hard to impress or penetrate): нечувствителен (nečuvstvitelen) (Bulgarian), abgestumpft (German), spuntato (Italian), obtuso (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-blunt-en-adj-1QDJscF8 Disambiguation of 'hard to impress or penetrate': 1 1 1 97 1
  5. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive. Categories (topical): Personality
    Sense id: en-blunt-en-adj-DBkU-wdh Disambiguation of Personality: 7 3 22 3 21 12 3 14 3 9 0 1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: blunten, blunt instrument, bluntly, bluntness, blunt-nosed viper, blunt-witted
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /blʌnt/ [UK, US] Audio: En-us-blunt.ogg [US] Forms: blunts [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌnt Etymology: From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt (attested in the derivative Blunta (male personal name) (> English surnames Blunt, Blount)), probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to doze”) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|blunt}} Middle English blunt, {{m|enm|blont}} blont, {{der|en|ang|*blunt}} Old English *blunt, {{m|ang|Blunta|pos=male personal name}} Blunta (male personal name), {{m|en|Blunt}} Blunt, {{m|en|Blount}} Blount, {{gloss|> English surnames <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Blunt</i>, <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Blount</i>}} (> English surnames Blunt, Blount), {{der|en|gmq|-}} North Germanic, {{cog|non|blunda|t=to doze}} Old Norse blunda (“to doze”), {{cog|is|blunda}} Icelandic blunda, {{cog|sv|blunda}} Swedish blunda, {{cog|da|blunde}} Danish blunde, {{gloss|> Icelandic <i class="Latn mention" lang="is">blunda</i>, Swedish <i class="Latn mention" lang="sv">blunda</i>, Danish <i class="Latn mention" lang="da">blunde</i>}} (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde) Head templates: {{en-noun}} blunt (plural blunts)
  1. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip. Categories (topical): Personality
    Sense id: en-blunt-en-noun-VBCSukwG Disambiguation of Personality: 7 3 22 3 21 12 3 14 3 9 0 1
  2. A short needle with a strong point. Categories (lifeform): Marijuana Translations (short needle with a strong point): tylppä neula (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-blunt-en-noun-eK-BK4A2 Disambiguation of Marijuana: 4 5 9 9 2 4 19 19 5 9 12 4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 2 11 10 1 2 27 7 7 9 17 2 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 9 4 12 8 2 3 21 8 9 7 14 3 Disambiguation of 'short needle with a strong point': 0 94 1 2 3
  3. (smoking, slang, US) A marijuana cigar. Tags: US, slang Categories (topical): Smoking, Personality, Smoking Categories (lifeform): Marijuana Synonyms: marijuana cigarette Translations (cigar filled with marijuana): porro [masculine] (Catalan), peta [masculine] (Catalan), bluntti (Finnish), blunt [masculine] (French), peta [feminine] (Galician), Blunt [masculine] (German), blant [masculine] (Polish), beque [masculine] (Portuguese), кося́к (kosják) [slang] (Russian), бу̏ксна [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), bȕksna [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), porro [masculine] (Spanish), filin [masculine] (Spanish), blon [masculine] (Spanish), joint [common-gender] (Swedish), jolle [common-gender] (Swedish), joppe [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-blunt-en-noun-iECb4jXa Disambiguation of Personality: 7 3 22 3 21 12 3 14 3 9 0 1 Disambiguation of Smoking: 7 4 8 6 6 8 8 30 3 11 6 3 Disambiguation of Marijuana: 4 5 9 9 2 4 19 19 5 9 12 4 Categories (other): American English Topics: lifestyle, smoking Disambiguation of 'cigar filled with marijuana': 6 2 83 2 7
  4. (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money Tags: UK, archaic, slang, uncountable Synonyms: money
    Sense id: en-blunt-en-noun-jSrItY6t Categories (other): British English
  5. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
    Sense id: en-blunt-en-noun-~IybdRGS
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /blʌnt/ [UK, US] Audio: En-us-blunt.ogg [US] Forms: blunts [present, singular, third-person], blunting [participle, present], blunted [participle, past], blunted [past]
Rhymes: -ʌnt Etymology: From Middle English blunten, blonten, from the adjective (see above). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|blunten}} Middle English blunten, {{m|enm|blonten}} blonten Head templates: {{en-verb}} blunt (third-person singular simple present blunts, present participle blunting, simple past and past participle blunted)
  1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt. Categories (lifeform): Marijuana Translations (to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker): ἀμβλύνω (amblúnō) (Ancient Greek), притъпявам (pritǎpjavam) (Bulgarian), tylsyttää (Finnish), émousser (French), abstumpfen (German), αμβλύνω (amvlýno) (Greek), smussare (Italian), spuntare (Italian), та́пи (tápi) (Macedonian), tiwhatiwha (Maori), whakapūhuki (Maori), whakahāpūpū (Maori), whakapūhoi (Maori), cegar (Portuguese), embotar (Spanish), trubba (Swedish), pylu (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-blunt-en-verb-cG5NAAOM Disambiguation of Marijuana: 4 5 9 9 2 4 19 19 5 9 12 4 Disambiguation of 'to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker': 99 1
  2. (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of Tags: figuratively Translations (to repress or weaken): ἀμβλύνω (amblúnō) (Ancient Greek), afzwakken (Dutch), latistaa (Finnish), lässäyttää [colloquial] (Finnish), réprimer (French), αμβλύνω (amvlýno) (Greek), reprimir (Portuguese), embotar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-blunt-en-verb-4Oyjg8ir Disambiguation of 'to repress or weaken': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: blunten Related terms: bluntly, dull
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5",
          "text": "The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.",
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          "sense": "having a thick edge or point",
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          "lang": "Armenian",
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          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "բութ"
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          "lang": "Bashkir",
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          "word": "үтмәҫ"
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          "code": "ba",
          "lang": "Bashkir",
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          "word": "тупаҫ"
        },
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          "code": "ba",
          "lang": "Bashkir",
          "roman": "tupaq",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "тупаҡ"
        },
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          "code": "eu",
          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "kamuts"
        },
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          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "tupý",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "тупы́"
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "tǎp",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "pritǎpen",
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          "word": "притъпен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
          "roman": "tum:",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "တုံး"
        },
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "rom"
        },
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          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "鈍"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "dùn",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "钝"
        },
        {
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "tupý"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "sløv"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "stomp"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "bot"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "malakra"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "nüri"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "tylppä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "tylsä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "émoussé"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "moucho"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "obtuso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "mouco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "blagvi",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "ბლაგვი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "stumpf"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "abgestumpft"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "amvlýs",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "αμβλύς"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "amblús",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "ἀμβλύς"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "kōphós",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "κωφός"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "qehé",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "קֵהֶה"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "tompa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "sljór"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "tumpul"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "majal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "tyltsä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "nyrhi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "spuntato"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "alt": "にぶい",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nibui",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "鈍い"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "rɨl",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "រឹល"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "mudin",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "무딘"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "mokok",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "мокок"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "obtusus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "hebes"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "retusus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "truls"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "neass"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "bukas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "tap",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "тап"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "tumpul"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "neuvirragh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "angheyre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "kotehe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "pūnuki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "hāpūpū"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "pūhoi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "nguture"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "pūnguru"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "pūhuki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "kuruhuki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "tūnguru"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "kiporo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "moxoo",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "мохоо"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "stump"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "stump"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "kond",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "کند"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "tępy"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "cego"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "rombo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "obtuso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "tocit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "neascutit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "bont"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tupój",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "тупо́й"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "туп"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "tup"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "tupý"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "top"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "romo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "obtuso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "trubbig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "tsg",
          "lang": "Tausug",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "tumpul"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "küt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "tupýj",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "тупи́й"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "cùn"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "pŵl"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "di-awch"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
          "word": "xırt"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute."
      ],
      "id": "en-blunt-en-adj-Ls2AzcKY",
      "links": [
        [
          "acute",
          "acute"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 4 2 4",
          "sense": "dull in understanding",
          "word": "stupid"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 84 4 2 4",
          "sense": "dull in understanding",
          "word": "obtuse"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "butʿ",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "բութ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "tǎp",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "тъп"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "glupav",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "глупав"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "sløv"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "hidasälyinen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "sot"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "obtus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "idiot"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "mouco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "obtuso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "stumpf"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "träge"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "amvlýs",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "αμβλύς"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ottuso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "mudin",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "무딘"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "tap",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "тап"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "moxoo",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "мохоо"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "kond",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "کند"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "obtuso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tupój",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "тупо́й"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 3 1 6",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
          "word": "obtuso"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "7 3 22 3 21 12 3 14 3 9 0 1",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Personality",
          "orig": "en:Personality",
          "parents": [
            "Mind",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The blunt admission that he had never liked my company."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech."
      ],
      "id": "en-blunt-en-adj-C1tkXdz0",
      "links": [
        [
          "unceremonious",
          "unceremonious"
        ],
        [
          "civility",
          "civility"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 6 85 1 4",
          "sense": "abrupt in address",
          "word": "curt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 6 85 1 4",
          "sense": "abrupt in address",
          "word": "short"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 6 85 1 4",
          "sense": "abrupt in address",
          "word": "rude"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 6 85 1 4",
          "sense": "abrupt in address",
          "word": "brusque"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 6 85 1 4",
          "sense": "abrupt in address",
          "word": "impolite"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 6 85 1 4",
          "sense": "abrupt in address",
          "word": "uncivil"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 6 85 1 4",
          "sense": "abrupt in address",
          "word": "harsh"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "rjazǎk",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "рязък"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "bezceremonen",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "безцеремонен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "otsekohene"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "suorasukainen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "abrupt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "ríspeto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "brusco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "ungehobelt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "unverblümt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "sutorēto",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "ストレート"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "grub",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "груб"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "nágol",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "на́гол"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "ótsečen",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "о́тсечен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "óstar",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "о́стар"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
          "word": "bezceremonialny"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 91 2 3",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
          "word": "cegar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
          "word": "embotar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
          "word": "trubba"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
          "word": "pylu"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It blunted my appetite."
        },
        {
          "text": "My feeling towards her have been blunted."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC",
          "text": "That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3",
          "text": "I'm not saying that thousands of folk are not being inconvenienced, because they most certainly are, but the impact of strikes on government has been blunted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of"
      ],
      "id": "en-blunt-en-verb-4Oyjg8ir",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to repress or weaken",
          "word": "afzwakken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to repress or weaken",
          "word": "latistaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to repress or weaken",
          "tags": [
            "colloquial"
          ],
          "word": "lässäyttää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to repress or weaken",
          "word": "réprimer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "amvlýno",
          "sense": "to repress or weaken",
          "word": "αμβλύνω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "amblúnō",
          "sense": "to repress or weaken",
          "word": "ἀμβλύνω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to repress or weaken",
          "word": "reprimir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to repress or weaken",
          "word": "embotar"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/blʌnt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌnt"
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/En-us-blunt.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "blunten"
    }
  ],
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    "blunt"
  ],
  "word": "blunt"
}
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    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from North Germanic languages",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
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    "en:Personality",
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    {
      "word": "blunten"
    },
    {
      "word": "blunt instrument"
    },
    {
      "word": "bluntly"
    },
    {
      "word": "bluntness"
    },
    {
      "word": "blunt-nosed viper"
    },
    {
      "word": "blunt-witted"
    }
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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "Middle English blunt",
      "name": "inh"
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      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
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      },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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        "3": "*blunt"
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      "args": {
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Blunt"
      },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "> English surnames <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"en\">Blunt</i>, <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"en\">Blount</i>"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmq",
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      "expansion": "North Germanic",
      "name": "der"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "blunda",
        "t": "to doze"
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      "expansion": "Old Norse blunda (“to doze”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "blunda"
      },
      "expansion": "Icelandic blunda",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "blunda"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
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      "expansion": "Danish blunde",
      "name": "cog"
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      "args": {
        "1": "> Icelandic <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"is\">blunda</i>, Swedish <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"sv\">blunda</i>, Danish <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"da\">blunde</i>"
      },
      "expansion": "(> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde)",
      "name": "gloss"
    }
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blunter",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bluntest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "blunt (comparative blunter, superlative bluntest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5",
          "text": "The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having a thick edge or point; not sharp."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sharp",
          "sharp"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "acute",
          "acute"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The blunt admission that he had never liked my company."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unceremonious",
          "unceremonious"
        ],
        [
          "civility",
          "civility"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift\nI find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Hard to impress or penetrate."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "insensitive",
          "insensitive"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/blʌnt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌnt"
    },
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      "audio": "En-us-blunt.ogg",
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      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point",
      "word": "dull"
    },
    {
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point",
      "word": "pointless"
    },
    {
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point",
      "word": "coarse"
    },
    {
      "sense": "dull in understanding",
      "word": "stupid"
    },
    {
      "sense": "dull in understanding",
      "word": "obtuse"
    },
    {
      "sense": "abrupt in address",
      "word": "curt"
    },
    {
      "sense": "abrupt in address",
      "word": "short"
    },
    {
      "sense": "abrupt in address",
      "word": "rude"
    },
    {
      "sense": "abrupt in address",
      "word": "brusque"
    },
    {
      "sense": "abrupt in address",
      "word": "impolite"
    },
    {
      "sense": "abrupt in address",
      "word": "uncivil"
    },
    {
      "sense": "abrupt in address",
      "word": "harsh"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "akl",
      "lang": "Aklanon",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "dumpoe"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "kalīl",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "كَلِيل"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "butʿ",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "բութ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "ütməś",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "үтмәҫ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "tupaś",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "тупаҫ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "tupaq",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "тупаҡ"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "kamuts"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "tupý",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "тупы́"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tǎp",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "тъп"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pritǎpen",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "притъпен"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "tum:",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "တုံး"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "rom"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "鈍"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dùn",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "钝"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tupý"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "sløv"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "stomp"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "bot"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "malakra"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "nüri"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "tylppä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "tylsä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "émoussé"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "moucho"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "obtuso"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "mouco"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "blagvi",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "ბლაგვი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "stumpf"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "abgestumpft"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "amvlýs",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "αμβλύς"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "amblús",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "ἀμβλύς"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "kōphós",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "κωφός"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "qehé",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "קֵהֶה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "tompa"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "sljór"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "tumpul"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "majal"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "tyltsä"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "nyrhi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "spuntato"
    },
    {
      "alt": "にぶい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nibui",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "鈍い"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "rɨl",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "រឹល"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "mudin",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "무딘"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "mokok",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "мокок"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "obtusus"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "hebes"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "retusus"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "truls"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "neass"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "bukas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "tap",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "тап"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "tumpul"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "neuvirragh"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "angheyre"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "kotehe"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "pūnuki"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "hāpūpū"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "pūhoi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "nguture"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "pūnguru"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "pūhuki"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "kuruhuki"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "tūnguru"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "kiporo"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "moxoo",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "мохоо"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "stump"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "stump"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kond",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "کند"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "tępy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "cego"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "rombo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "obtuso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "tocit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "neascutit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "bont"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tupój",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "тупо́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "туп"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
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      "word": "tup"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "tupý"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "top"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "romo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "obtuso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "trubbig"
    },
    {
      "code": "tsg",
      "lang": "Tausug",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "tumpul"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "küt"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tupýj",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "тупи́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "cùn"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "pŵl"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "di-awch"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "having a thick edge or point, not sharp",
      "word": "xırt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "butʿ",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "բութ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tǎp",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "тъп"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "glupav",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "глупав"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "sløv"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "hidasälyinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "sot"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "obtus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "idiot"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "mouco"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "obtuso"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "stumpf"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "träge"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "amvlýs",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "αμβλύς"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ottuso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "mudin",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "무딘"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "tap",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "тап"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "moxoo",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "мохоо"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kond",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "کند"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "obtuso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tupój",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "тупо́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "dull in understanding; slow of discernment",
      "word": "obtuso"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "rjazǎk",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "рязък"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bezceremonen",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "безцеремонен"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "otsekohene"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "suorasukainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "abrupt"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "ríspeto"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "brusco"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "ungehobelt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "unverblümt"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sutorēto",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "ストレート"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "grub",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "груб"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "nágol",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "на́гол"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ótsečen",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "о́тсечен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "óstar",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "о́стар"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "bezceremonialny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "brusco"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "grúbyj",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "гру́бый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "brusco"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "di-flewyn-ar-dafod"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "plaen"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious",
      "word": "diseremoni"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nečuvstvitelen",
      "sense": "hard to impress or penetrate",
      "word": "нечувствителен"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "hard to impress or penetrate",
      "word": "abgestumpft"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "hard to impress or penetrate",
      "word": "spuntato"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "hard to impress or penetrate",
      "word": "obtuso"
    }
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    "blunt"
  ],
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}

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    "English terms with audio links",
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    "en:Personality",
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      "expansion": "Danish blunde",
      "name": "cog"
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          "fencer"
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          "needle",
          "needle"
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          "point"
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        "A marijuana cigar."
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          "marijuana"
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          "cigar"
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        "US",
        "slang"
      ],
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        "lifestyle",
        "smoking"
      ]
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        "English slang",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English uncountable nouns"
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          "money"
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        "UK",
        "archaic",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
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    {
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      ],
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        [
          "playboating",
          "playboating"
        ],
        [
          "cartwheel",
          "cartwheel"
        ],
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          "wave"
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        "UK",
        "US"
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/En-us-blunt.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "short needle with a strong point",
      "word": "tylppä neula"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "porro"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "peta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "word": "bluntti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blunt"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "peta"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Blunt"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blant"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "beque"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kosják",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "кося́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "бу̏ксна"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "bȕksna"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "porro"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "filin"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blon"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "joint"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "jolle"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "cigar filled with marijuana",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "joppe"
    }
  ],
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    "blunt"
  ],
  "word": "blunt"
}

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    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌnt",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌnt/1 syllable",
    "en:Marijuana",
    "en:Personality",
    "en:Smoking"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "blunten"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English blunten",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "blonten"
      },
      "expansion": "blonten",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English blunten, blonten, from the adjective (see above).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blunts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blunting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blunted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blunted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "blunt (third-person singular simple present blunts, present participle blunting, simple past and past participle blunted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bluntly"
    },
    {
      "word": "dull"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dull",
          "dull"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It blunted my appetite."
        },
        {
          "text": "My feeling towards her have been blunted."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC",
          "text": "That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3",
          "text": "I'm not saying that thousands of folk are not being inconvenienced, because they most certainly are, but the impact of strikes on government has been blunted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/blʌnt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌnt"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-blunt.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/52/En-us-blunt.ogg/En-us-blunt.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/En-us-blunt.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "blunten"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pritǎpjavam",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "притъпявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "tylsyttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "émousser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "abstumpfen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "amvlýno",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "αμβλύνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "amblúnō",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "ἀμβλύνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "smussare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "spuntare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "tápi",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "та́пи"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "tiwhatiwha"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "whakapūhuki"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "whakahāpūpū"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "whakapūhoi"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "cegar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "embotar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "trubba"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker",
      "word": "pylu"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to repress or weaken",
      "word": "afzwakken"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to repress or weaken",
      "word": "latistaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to repress or weaken",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "lässäyttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to repress or weaken",
      "word": "réprimer"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "amvlýno",
      "sense": "to repress or weaken",
      "word": "αμβλύνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "amblúnō",
      "sense": "to repress or weaken",
      "word": "ἀμβλύνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to repress or weaken",
      "word": "reprimir"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to repress or weaken",
      "word": "embotar"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "blunt"
  ],
  "word": "blunt"
}

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