Dulled

A pained expression dulled his features, and he shook his head. ❋ Baxter, Mary Lynn (1999)

On the battlements above, Jonat - helmet gone, sword dulled - watched helplessly as the Vagrians swept over the ramparts. ❋ Gemmell, David (1986)

He has documented his experimental research which has demonstrated that the "executive function" of the brain – the part that controls thinking, problem solving and task completion – has been significantly affected, and 'dulled' – by exposure to electronic media. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have had some people tell me that he was drinking on the red carpet. so maybe he had kind of dulled his senses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One that has been, for whatever reason, "dulled" by some purely physical phenomenon. ❋ Unknown (2006)

People with AIDS may describe feeling "dulled" or "slow" in their thinking. ❋ Unknown (1993)

"ejectives", which can best be described as a dulled-down version of the clicks in South Africa's Xhosa language. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Has the woman erred, and is the father's sword dulled? " ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Mystics, like Eliot, know that our usual experience of reality is dulled, incomplete or illusory. ❋ Rabbi Alan Lurie (2010)

I had not read Middlemarch (or any George Eliot, for that matter) and didn't know the context, but I was immediately drawn in to this beautiful sentence, with its description of the dulled state in which most of us live and the yearning to peel back this dullness in order to experience the powerful presence of life itself. ❋ Rabbi Alan Lurie (2010)

They dulled the pain of broken promises and routine domestic violence with alcohol and drugs. ❋ Lisa Davis (2011)

That judgment sits alongside a thousand other opinions, most of which are split between these two pillars of the game, but McEnroe, the three-times former champion on this grass, whose perceptions are not dulled by the years, leans slightly towards the Spaniard. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The crushing pain at the back of my skull had disappeared, but the memory of it was so intense it dulled my senses and made the present seem less real. ❋ Elizabeth Chandler (2011)

But that the passion should be so dulled that nearly one in three high school students fails to graduate each year is unacceptable. ❋ Idit Harel Caperton (2010)