Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BLUNT, v.t.

1. To dull the edge or point, by making it thicker.
2. To repress or weaken any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force of any passion which affects the mind, or of any evil or good which affects the body; as, to blunt the edge of love, of pain, or of suffering. Your ceaseless endeavors will be exerted to blunt the stings of pain. – Dwight.