dulled
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[ adjective ] having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure
Synonyms Examples "the mind of the audience is becoming dulled" "the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond" Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)Public_relations strategists everywhere , watching the reaction of the German press , the liberal press , the lunatic fringe press , listening to their neighbors , studying interviews with men and women on the street , cried_out : Too_much , too_much - the mind of the audience is becoming dulled , the horrors are losing their effect . (Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)But he was more_than half drunk , and his faculties were dulled . Related terms |
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