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~ make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface"
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~ become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time"
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~ become less interesting or attractive
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~ make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
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~ deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
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~ make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"
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~ make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"
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~ not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets"
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~ lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods"
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~ so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
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~ (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues"
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~ (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
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~ blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather