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Deadened

adjective
1.
Devoid of physical sensation; numb.  Synonym: dead.  "She felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth" , "A public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"
2.
Made or become less intense.


Deaden

verb
(past & past part. deadened; pres. part. deadening)
1.
Make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible.  Synonyms: damp, dampen.
2.
Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients.  Synonym: girdle.
3.
Make vapid or deprive of spirit.
4.
Lessen the momentum or velocity of.
5.
Become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor.
6.
Make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation.  Synonym: blunt.  "Deaden a sound"
7.
Convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil.



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"Deadened" Quotes from Famous Books



... effectively, creatively. If we succeed—and we sometimes do—our inner life is resurrected, the whole man is regenerated, and a living worship connects man with God. But if we fail—and we often do—the spiritual nature remains as if dead, and, on top of this, we pile a deadened body-mind. What should be a meeting for worship, a place where man and God come together, becomes a void. There is no life, only a sterile quietism. Sterile quietism is as bad as ...
— An Interpretation of Friends Worship • N. Jean Toomer
... own soul which had summarily gained supremacy and led him hither, unresisting, to its own abiding-place. In vain he groped to reconstruct the process by which that other spirit—which he would fain have believed his true spirit—had been drugged and deadened ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... horrible, unbelievable word. The man was incapable of feeling—every other pain was deadened in this ...
— The Daffodil Mystery • Edgar Wallace
... only have been the ingrained prejudice of the Restoration period against "metaphysical" verse that deadened Dryden's ear to the charm of such passages as these. Another less notable poet and playwright of the time showed more discrimination. This was Thomas D'Urfey, who in 1691 brought out a revised version of the play at the Theatre Royal. In a dedication ...
— Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois • George Chapman
... and the deadened jingle of gold upon green cloth, and the light grating of the croupiers' rakes, was the first impression upon Zoe's senses; but the mere game did not monopolize her attention many seconds. There were other things better worth noting: the great varieties of human type that a single ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade


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