blunt vs struggle

blunt

verb
  • To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of 

  • To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt. 

noun
  • A marijuana cigar. 

  • A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave. 

  • A short needle with a strong point. 

  • A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip. 

adj
  • Having a thick edge or point; not sharp. 

  • Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech. 

  • Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute. 

  • Hard to impress or penetrate. 

  • Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive. 

struggle

verb
  • To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. 

  • To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend. 

noun
  • A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task. 

  • Strife, contention, great effort. 

How often have the words blunt and struggle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )