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point-blank
Universal Words
adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 (of a shot) fired with the gun touching or very close to the person or thing it is aimed at:
The officer was shot dead at point-blank range.
2 (of sth that is said) very definite and direct and not very polite:
a point-blank refusal
point-blank adverb:
She fired point-blank at his chest. * He refused point-blank to be photographed.
