dulled

Meaning of dulled

verb, past tense
  1. make or become dull or less intense.
    time dulls the memory
    Albert's eyes dulled a little

Old English dol ‘stupid’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dol ‘crazy’ and German toll ‘mad, fantastic, wonderful’.

Information about dulled

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of dulled

dulled

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • dulled is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

dulled synonyms

Meaning benumbed:

benumbed

Meaning blunted:

blunted

Meaning greyed:

greyed

Meaning make or become less; diminish:

lessen

Meaning make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree:

decrease

Meaning make or become less:

diminish

Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:

reduce

Meaning make less strong or intense:

dampen

Meaning make (someone) feel utterly dispirited or dejected:

depress

Meaning weaken or reduce the force of (something):

blunt

Meaning make (a noise or sensation) less strong or intense:

deaden

Meaning deaden, muffle, or soften the sound of:

mute

Meaning make or become less severe:

soften

Meaning diminish or put at rest (fear, suspicion, or worry):

allay

Meaning make (something unpleasant or intense) less serious or severe:

ease

Meaning relieve or ease (pain):

soothe

Meaning satisfy (an appetite or desire):

assuage

Meaning make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe:

alleviate

Meaning make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe without removing the cause:

palliate

Meaning make or become less extreme, intense, rigorous, or violent:

moderate

Meaning make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful:

mitigate

Meaning cause (a sensation) to be felt less intensely; deaden:

numb

Meaning deprive of physical or emotional feeling:

benumb

Meaning make less sensitive:

desensitize

Meaning make (someone) unable to think or feel properly:

stupefy

Meaning (especially of an emotional or physical shock) make (someone) unable to think or react properly:

daze

Meaning knock unconscious or into a dazed or semi-conscious state:

stun

Meaning administer a drug to (someone) in order to induce stupor or insensibility:

drug

Meaning calm, dignified, and unhurried:

sedate

Meaning (of a drug) have a calming or sedative effect on:

tranquillize

Meaning affect with or as if with a narcotic drug:

narcotize

Meaning make (someone or something) numb, paralysed, or lifeless:

torpefy

Meaning dull the sensitivity of; blunt; deaden:

obtund

Meaning gradually grow faint and disappear:

fade

Meaning become pale in one's face from shock or fear:

pale

Meaning cause (a material such as cloth, paper, or hair) to become white or much lighter by a chemical process or by exposure to sunlight:

bleach

Meaning remove the colour from:

decolorize

Meaning make or become less bright or distinct:

dim

Meaning make (a plant) pale through lack of light:

etiolate

Meaning make or become dark or darker:

darken

Meaning make or become black or dark, especially as a result of burning, decay, or bruising:

blacken

Meaning make or become unclear or less distinct:

blur

Meaning cover with a veil:

veil

Meaning keep from being seen; conceal:

obscure

Meaning envelop in shadow; cast a shadow over:

shadow

Meaning (with reference to a glass surface) cover or become covered with steam:

fog

Meaning cause to become dim:

bedim

Meaning less high in position:

lower

Meaning compress or squeeze forcefully so as to break, damage, or distort in shape:

crush

Meaning (of a structure or area of land) tremble or vibrate:

shake

Meaning gradually weaken or destroy (a person's strength or power):

sap

Meaning forcibly put an end to:

suppress

Meaning cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine:

extinguish

Meaning kill (someone) by covering their nose and mouth so that they suffocate:

smother

Meaning make (someone) unable to breathe properly; suffocate:

stifle

dulled antonyms

Meaning become or make more intense:

intensify

Meaning make (something) more entertaining, interesting, or appealing:

enliven

Meaning intensify, increase, or further improve the quality, value, or extent of:

enhance

Meaning make or become more light:

brighten

Meaning lift or move to a higher position or level:

raise

Words that rhyme with dulled

appalled, autodialled, backpedalled, balled, beballed, becalled, begalled, bethralled, blackballed, caballed, called, cannonballed, carnalled, catcalled, corivalled, coronalled, corralled, corrivalled, coveralled, credentialled, crystalled, curveballed, cymballed, devalled, dialled, disenthralled, disinthralled, drywalled, dualled, emballed, enthralled, envassalled, enwalled, equalled, eyeballed, firewalled, forestalled, galled, generalled, gimballed, gimmalled, halalled, hallalled, highballed, initialled, installed, intervalled, inthralled, inwalled, jackalled

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