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Blunted vs Bunted - What's the difference?

blunted | bunted |

As verbs the difference between blunted and bunted

is that blunted is past tense of blunt while bunted is past tense of bunt.

blunted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (blunt)

    • blunt

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; not sharp.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
    • The murderous knife was dull and blunt .
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
    • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, section=chapter 5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
  • Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
    • His wits are not so blunt .
  • Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
    • the blunt admission that he had never liked my company
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
    • a plain, blunt man
  • Hard to impress or penetrate.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
    • I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
  • Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

    • Synonyms

    * (having a thick edge or point) dull, pointless, coarse * (dull in understanding) stupid, obtuse * (abrupt in address) curt, short, rude, brusque, impolite, uncivil, harsh

    Derived terms

    * blunt instrument * bluntly * bluntness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
  • A short needle with a strong point.
  • (smoking) A marijuana cigar.
  • * 2005': to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a '''blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!” — Martin Torgoff, ''Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 461)
  • (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
  • * Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
    • Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt
  • A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
  • (figuratively) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=January 12 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit. }}

    See also

    * bluntly * dull ----

    bunted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bunt)

    • bunt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
    • The bunt of the sail was green.
  • (baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
    • The bunt was fielded cleanly.
  • (baseball, softball) The act of bunting
    • The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
  • (aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
  • A fungus (Ustilago foetida ) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust; pepperbrand.

    • See also

    * ("bunt" on Wikipedia)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (baseball) to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance
    • Jones bunted the ball.
  • (baseball) to intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance
    • Jones bunted .
  • (aviation) to perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
    • We had heard that there was an elite group of three or four pilots in Jodhpur called the "Bunt Club", who had successfully bunted their aircraft - that is, carried out the second half of an outside loop. In the Bunt, you pushed the nose down, past the vertical and still further, until you were in horizontal inverted flight, and came out on the other side and rolled it out.
  • (nautical) To swell out.
    • The sail bunts .
  • (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.