dull
blur
fog
hebetate
dim
murk
fume
dozzle
dusken
unvulgarize
bedim
unsharpen
bemire
soil
subtilize
disedge
superficialize
dimidiately
undull
doze
vaguen
darken
deaden
skimp
bedarken
blandishingly
obscure
rebate
dullen
sombre
gloom
obfuscate
blandiloquently
morosely
foil
tincture
mince
scantily
adumbrate
blear
dark
flatten
refine
abirritate
acidulate
etiolate
rosa
blank
dowdify
slighten
obtund
haze
mull
ignoble
scowl
take the edge off
derogate
blandify
slight
overgloom
sugar
hebetation
leaden
duncy
prog
sparsen
bedimmed
tarnish
dimmed
veil
explain
ruin
evacuate
melt away
smudge
downtone
abridgedly
coarsen
obscurantism
oversoften
uncrisp
mellow
blandification
dimply
dissimilate
guttery
unlustrous
dim
duncy
bedimmed
dimmed
dimply
guttery
unlustrous
dimidiately
blandishingly
blandiloquently
morosely
scantily
abridgedly
hebetation
obscurantism
blandification
dull
blur
fog
hebetate
dim
murk
fume
dozzle
dusken
unvulgarize
bedim
unsharpen
bemire
soil
subtilize
disedge
superficialize
undull
doze
vaguen
darken
deaden
skimp
bedarken
obscure
rebate
dullen
sombre
gloom
obfuscate
foil
tincture
mince
adumbrate
blear
dark
flatten
refine
abirritate
acidulate
etiolate
rosa
blank
dowdify
slighten
obtund
haze
mull
ignoble
scowl
take the edge off
derogate
blandify
slight
overgloom
sugar
leaden
prog
sparsen
tarnish
veil
explain
ruin
evacuate
melt away
smudge
downtone
coarsen
oversoften
uncrisp
mellow
dissimilate
verb
- To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
- To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
- To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
- To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
adj
- Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
- Insensible; unfeeling.
- Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
- Sluggish, listless.
- Boring; not exciting or interesting.
- Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
- Cloudy, overcast.
- Heavy; lifeless; inert.
- Not clear, muffled.
verb
- To make dim or obscure.
- To become dim or obscure.
- To become obscured in condensation or water.
- To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
- To cover with or as if with fog.
- To obscure in condensation or water.
- To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- To make confusing or obscure.
- To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
- To become covered with or as if with fog.
- To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
noun
- A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- Distance fog.
- A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- A mist or film clouding a surface.
- Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. (Compare mist, haze.)
- Moss.
verb
- To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.
- To apply or offer incense to.
- To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints.
- To pass off in fumes or vapours.
- To express or feel great anger.
- To emit fumes.
noun
- Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
- Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
- The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
- A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.
- A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
verb
- To stupify; to render dull or insensible.
- To use a dozzle in order to prevent shrinkage when casting in a mold.
noun
- the tobacco left at the bottom of a pipe and put on the top of the next fill: dottle; in a general sense, a plug or a cap to top something off.
- A device, originally a heated sleave of fire clay, variously used to introduce molten metal to counter the formation of hollows in metal castings as they shrink while the mould cools. Now commonly called hot top or feeder head
- the straw ornament on top of a haystack.
- a paste flower on top of a pie cover.
verb
- To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- To make invalid, to ruin.
- To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.
- To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
- To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
- To make dirty.
- To become dirty or soiled.
noun
- The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
- Country or territory.
- Dung; compost; manure.
- The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
- That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
- A bag containing soiled items.
- Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
- A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
- A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
verb
- To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
- To become gloomy, darker in mood.
- To render gloomy, darker in mood.
- To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
- To become dark or darker (having less light).
- To make dark or darker by reducing light.
- To make dark or darker in colour.
- To blind, impair the eyesight.
- To become dark or darker in colour.
- To be blinded, lose one’s eyesight.
- To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).
verb
- To diminish or lessen something
- To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
- To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
- To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
- To abate; to withdraw.
- Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².
noun
- An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
- A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
- The return of part of an amount already paid.
- The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
- A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
- A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
- A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
verb
- To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
- To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
- To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
- To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
- To cover or wrap with foil.
noun
- Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
- A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
- A very thin sheet of metal.
- A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
- A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
- Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
- In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.
- One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
- A stylized flower or leaf.
- Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- The track of an animal.
verb
- Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
- To have a taint or tinge of some quality.
- To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
- To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
noun
- A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
- A (small) alcoholic drink.
- The part of a substance thought to be essential, finer, and/or more volatile, which could be extracted in a solution; also, the process of obtaining this.
- An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.
- A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
- A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms; namely, a colour, fur, or metal.
- A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.
- A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.
verb
- To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
- To effect mincingly.
- To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.
- To make less; to make small.
- To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
- To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
- To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
- To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).
noun
verb
- To make dark, darken; to obscure.
- To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
- To grow or become dark, darken.
noun
- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
- Ignorance.
- Nightfall.
- A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
adj
- Off the air; not transmitting.
- Ambiguously or unclearly expressed: enigmatic, esoteric, mysterious, obscure, undefined.
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
- With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
- Deprived of sight; blind.
- Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension: caliginous, darkling, dim, gloomy, lightless, sombre.
- Having racing capability not widely known.
- Marked by or conducted with secrecy: hidden, secret; clandestine, surreptitious.
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
- Lacking progress in science or the arts.
- Extinguished.
- Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
verb
- To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
- To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.
- To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
- To knock down or lay low.
- To make something flat or flatter.
- To lower by a semitone.
- To combine (separate layers) into a single image.
- To be knocked down or laid low.
- To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
verb
- To make void; to erase.
- To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- To become blank.
- To be temporarily unable to remember.
- To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
adj
- Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
- Absolute; downright; sheer.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.
noun
- Infertile semen.
- A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word
- Blank verse .
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee .
- A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
- A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
verb
- To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
- To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
- To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
- To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
- In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
noun
- Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
- An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
- A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
- Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
- The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
- Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
verb
- To dull or stupefy.
- To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
- To powder; to pulverize.
- To heat and spice something, such as wine.
- To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
- To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
noun
- An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
- A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
- dirt; rubbish
- A thin, soft muslin.
- A promontory.
- A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
- The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
- Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
verb
verb
- To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
- To act negligently or carelessly.
- To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
- To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
- To give lesser weight or importance to.
- To throw heedlessly.
adj
- still; with little or no movement on the surface
- Even, smooth or level
- not far away in space or time
- of slender build
- gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful
- not thorough; superficial
- trifling; unimportant; insignificant
noun
verb
- To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
- To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
- In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.
- To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
- To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.
- To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
- To compliment (a person).
intj
noun
- Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
- A term of endearment.
- Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
- A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
- Diabetes.
- Heroin.
- A specific variety of sugar.
- Affection shown by kisses or kissing.
- Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
- Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
- Syntactic sugar.
verb
- to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
- make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
noun
- a garment that covers the head and face
- a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
- the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
- a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
verb
- To make something less enjoyable or likeable.
- To seduce or debauch, and thus harm the social standing of.
- To upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
- To cause the fiscal ruin of; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
- To destroy or make something no longer usable.
- To reveal the ending of (a story); to spoil.
noun
- The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
- A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
- The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
- The act of ruining something.
- Complete financial loss; bankruptcy.
- Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
verb
- To make empty; to deprive.
- To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
- To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
- To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
- To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from
- To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
verb
verb
- To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something); to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
- To cause (food or drink, for example, cheese or wine, or its flavour) to become matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- To mature and lose its harshness or sharpness.
- Followed by out: to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a person) to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- To cause (fruit) to become soft or tender, specifically by ripening.
- To relax; in particular, to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- To be rendered soft and suitable for planting in.
- To cause (a person) to become calmer, gentler, and more understanding, particularly from age or experience.
- To lose harshness; to become gentler, subdued, or toned down.
- To soften (land or soil) and make it suitable for planting in.
- To cause (a person) to become slightly or pleasantly drunk or intoxicated.
noun
- The property of being mellow; mellowness.
- Also main mellow: a close friend or lover.
- A comfortable or relaxed mood.
adj
- Soft and easily penetrated or worked; not hard or rigid; loamy.
- Pleasantly high or stoned, and relaxed after taking drugs; also, of drugs: slightly intoxicating and tending to produce such effects.
- Fruitful and warm.
- Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- Pleasing in some way; excellent, fantastic, great.
- Cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back, relaxed.
- Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.
- Mature; of crops: ready to be harvested; ripe.
- Not coarse, brash, harsh, or rough; delicate, rich, soft, subdued.
- Well-matured from age or experience; not impetuous or impulsive; calm, dignified, gentle.
- Drunk, intoxicated; especially slightly or pleasantly so, or to an extent that makes one cheerful and friendly.
adj
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