0 present participle of blunt
1 to make something less sharp
My recent bad experience has blunted my enthusiasm for travel.
The present study examined whether this blunting resulted an increased sensitivity to caregiver stress over time.
Neglect is associated with a blunting of behavioral and biological stress responses in human infants.
It is complicated by the fact that the blunting style involves problems of its own.
Conversely, the scale of loan aid, and the kind of infrastructure it typically funds, usually takes longer to identify and negotiate, thus blunting its short-term diplomatic utility.
Halothane anesthesia however produces significant hypotension and is less effective in blunting the fetal stress response.
Individualized informed consent requires screening patients to determine whether they employ a blunting style of coping: a coping style that makes some kinds of information potentially harmful to the patient.
The very cost of nationalisation and the blunting of the edge of cost consciousness offsets any theoretical advantage which nationalisation might show.
He goes on to point out the effect of social benefits and the taxation of incomes on blunting incentives to work.
