dulls
- 1Third-person singular simple present of dull.
Repeated sharpening eventually dulls even the finest steel.
Grief dulls the mind until ordinary tasks feel impossible.
Note
One spelling serves two constructions. With an object, it means blunting something: a blade, an ache, a mind, a polished surface (sharpening dulls the steel, the medicine dulls the pain, smoke dulls the silver). Without an object, the thing loses its own edge: a knife dulls with use. The intransitive use is the one to watch for. It is narrower and almost always about edges, while the transitive use stretches easily to the senses and the spirit.
A cheap knife dulls quickly on a glass cutting board.
Even the best blade dulls with steady use.
dulls is a form of dull
dull, verb: To take the sharpness off a blade or edge; to blunt something that was sharp. Full entry
- Spelling
- dull → dulls: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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