English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "stomp" is om iets minder skerp te maak of om die rand of punt daarvan te verdof. Dit kan ook beteken om iets minder intens of kragtig te maak, soos die effek van 'n argument of kritiek. Boonop kan "stomp" 'n persoon of hul gedrag beskryf as reguit, eerlik en gebrekkig aan subtiliteit of takt.

Sentence Examples

  1. Such blunt methods would not only get them nowhere, they might get them killed.
  2. I discovered that alcohol helped blunt the worst of it.
  3. If she was strong enough to survive a full blunt attack from Bergen, she could handle far more than what he had planned for her.
  4. His voice cut through the silence like a cold, blunt knife.
  5. At one point, a dirty arm broke through the threshold, but a few jabs from the blunt end of a spear quickly prodded its owner away as the doors slammed shut with a bang.
  6. You thought you could search for me with such a blunt instrument and come away unscathed?
  7. With his legs jellied, Rune slid down from Astrid, and briskly walked along the land that hugged the banks of the Raumelfr, forming a blunt point before trailing up the other side of the east river and shaping the land into a peninsula.
  8. That was the blunt choice CC Lister had put to the one-thousand officers, seven-hundred staff and three-hundred community support officers under his command.
  9. They are blunt forces that only require a pointing figure, a way to identify the targets, willing warriors, and a propaganda machine to sell the message.
  10. They ran over shredded clothes, luggage, and abandoned, blunt weapons.