dolor sordo

Phonetic: "/dəl/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.

Example: Years of misuse have dulled the tools.

Definition: To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.

Example: He drinks to dull the pain.

Definition: To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.

Example: A razor will dull with use.

Definition: To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

Phonetic: "/dəl/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.

Example: All these knives are dull.

Definition: Boring; not exciting or interesting.

Example: He sat through the dull lecture and barely stayed awake.

Definition: Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.

Example: Choose a dull finish to hide fingerprints.

Definition: Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.

Definition: Sluggish, listless.

Definition: Cloudy, overcast.

Example: It's a dull day.

Definition: Insensible; unfeeling.

Definition: Heavy; lifeless; inert.

Definition: (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.

Example: Pressing on the bruise produces a dull pain.

Definition: (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.

Phonetic: "/peɪn/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.

Example: I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.

Definition: The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress

Example: In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.

Definition: (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.

Example: Your mother is a right pain.

Definition: Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

Example: You may not leave this room on pain of death.

Definition: (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

Phonetic: "/peɪn/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.

Example: The wound pained him.

Definition: To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

Example: It pains me to say that I must let you go.

Definition: To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.