Thesaurus / deaden
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One asked for both a deadened baseball and rosters limited to 12 pitchers — which I wholeheartedly endorse because, if there are fewer pitchers to use, each pitcher has to do more and there can’t be as many game-stalling switches.
LONG GAMES, LATE NIGHTS: ONCE AGAIN, MLB’S PLAYOFFS ARE A SLOGBARRY SVRLUGAOCTOBER 28, 2021WASHINGTON POSTPlacebos can deaden pain signals coming from the nerves, they learned.
DISCOVERING THE POWER OF PLACEBOSKATHRYN HULICKSEPTEMBER 9, 2021SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSFor bulletproof armor to be effective, it needs to distribute and deaden the energy of bullets quickly, it needs to be durable against repeat impacts, and it needs to be light and useful enough that people actually wear it.
MICROSCOPIC MESH COULD BE THE KEY TO LIGHTER, STRONGER BODY ARMORCHARLOTTE HUAUGUST 22, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEIt turns out that deadening some of the pain of mountain biking also dims some of the satisfaction.
DO KIDS NEED E-MOUNTAIN BIKES?AGINTZLERJULY 24, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEThe dining room, even in the heat of summer, should be carpeted, to deaden the noise of the servants' feet.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEYHay and straw were laid upon the bridges to deaden the sound of the artillery wheels.
THE BOYS OF '61CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.An attempt to imagine a body destitute of thy potency, would be to bankrupt and deaden the material universe.
ETIDORHPA OR THE END OF EARTH.JOHN URI LLOYDEven concussion of the brain had failed to deaden the memory of that awful night.
QUINALICE HEGAN RICEHer heart answered to the same emotions that quicken or deaden the beat of other breasts.
TIN-TYPES TAKEN IN THE STREETS OF NEW YORKLEMUEL ELY QUIGGThe more Madeleine became accustomed to town life the easier she found it to deaden her recollections of the past.
GARMAN AND WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLANDWORDS RELATED TO DEADEN
- balking
- bottling up
- choking
- constraining
- corking
- corking up
- curbing
- deadening
- demurring
- garroting
- keeping the lid on
- muffling
- muzzling
- obstructing
- putting the lid on
- quieting
- repressing
- restraining
- shutting down
- shying
- squashing
- squelching
- stifling
- stilling
- stumbling
- suppressing
- taping up
- throttling
- tongue-tying
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