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blunt

The correct spelling is blunt.

How to pronounce blunt

/blʌnt/
noun

IPA: /blʌnt/

Say it like: Blu-nt

The correct spelling is blunt. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip. For 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)"

Usage Examples

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)

the blunt admission that he had never liked my company

It blunted my appetite.

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
  2. 2.A short needle with a strong point.
  3. 3.(smoking) A marijuana cigar.
  4. 4.Money
  5. 5.A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

adjective

  1. 1.Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
  2. 2.Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
  3. 3.Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
  4. 4.Hard to impress or penetrate.
  5. 5.Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

verb

  1. 1.To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
  2. 2.To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of

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