Dull and Firing

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Dull verb - To reduce or weaken in strength or feeling.

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Firing is an antonym for dull.

Nearby Words: dullness, dulling, dulled, dully, dullish

Firing noun - A directed propelling of a missile by a firearm or artillery piece.

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Dull is an antonym for firing in topics: excite, cause to burn, detonate or throw a weapon, dismiss from responsibility.

Nearby Words: fire, fired

Basic lasers are dull, firing only a single laser beam and doing a relatively pitiful one damage on a hit.

Source: Video Game / FTL: Faster Than Light
Half-Life and Half-Life 2 have the crossbow, which is the most damaging non-explosive weapon in the series despite firing tranquilizer darts in the first game and heated dull chunks of rebar in the second.

Source: Arbitrary Gun Power
The vicious attacks in the following episodes that may have played a role in Deayton being sacked, along with Paul Merton subsequently describing him as "a dull man" and his firing as "not a big deal", were so nasty that Stephen Fry has boycotted HIGNFY ever since.

Source: Series / Have I Got News for You

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