0 present participle of blunt --
1 to make something less sharp --
My recent bad experience has blunted my enthusiasm for travel.
But at the margin all taxes caused—collectively and cumulatively large damage—in blunting incentives to work, to save, to invest and to economise.
It represents a blunting of aspirations and a denial of opportunities for qualified students.
We are not blunting in any respect the existing provisions of the law about picketing at the work place or at any other place.
Of course there is a blunting of the public-conscience.
We must not let our aspirations for higher education risk blunting the developing edge of vibrant further education courses.
That is the blunting of the edge of the present new departure, but it will not be maintained.
There is no room for the blunting of individual responsibilities.
He goes on to point out the effect of social benefits and the taxation of incomes on blunting incentives to work.
