Animate
Animate verb - Make lively.
Blunt
Blunt verb - To reduce or weaken in strength or feeling.
Usage example: the mushy music blunted the effect of the movie's final tragic scene
Both words in one sentence
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Mundane Utility: In addition to being one of the classic tricks of necromancy, the spell Animate Skeleton is also a neat hands-free way of butchering meat, though this was much more useful back when cursed blunt weapons prevented you from butchering corpses.
Source: Video Game / Dungeon Crawl
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Blunt and Animate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/animate/blunt
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Blunt or Animate. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/animate/blunt.
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