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Blunt Diminish Crossword Clue

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99%6Exact Match!
verb

• make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible

• cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients

• make vapid or deprive of spirit

• lessen the momentum or velocity of

• become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor

• make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation

• convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil

18%6 Short sword unsheathed with essentially blunt point
adjective satellite

• marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions

• exceedingly sudden and unexpected

• dangerously steep

• surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner

18%8Blunt instrument
noun

• a club used as a weapon

verb

• overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club

• strike with a club or a bludgeon

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New York Times16 Jun 1988 Across 22
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