ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Made blunt; having point or edge dulled; also fig.

1

1677.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc. (1703), 349. With the blunted point of a Needle.

2

1697.  Dryden, Virg. (1806), III. 249. Part New grind the blunted axe.

3

1853.  F. Hall, in Leslie’s Misc., II. 176. A man whose moral judgment has become altogether blunted.

4

1871.  Palgrave, Lyr. Poems, 14. The blunted souls by lust defiled.

5