Thesaurus / deadening
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synonyms for deadening
- desensitize
- impair
- abate
- alleviate
- anesthetize
- benumb
- blunt
- check
- chloroform
- consume
- cushion
- damp
- dampen
- depress
- deprive
- destroy
- devitalize
- dim
- dope
- drown
- dull
- etherize
- exhaust
- freeze
- frustrate
- gas
- hush
- incapacitate
- injure
- lessen
- mute
- numb
- paralyze
- quieten
- reduce
- repress
- retard
- slow
- smother
- soften
- stifle
- stun
- stupefy
- suppress
- tire
- unnerve
- weaken
- KO
- knock out
- lay out
- put out of order
- put to sleep
- tone down
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Never has there been a religion more depressing, more hopeless, more deadening to all initiative.
WHERE HALF THE WORLD IS WAKING UPCLARENCE POEAnd in a few minutes Paul heard his father's heavy steps go thudding over the deadening snow.
SONS AND LOVERSDAVID HERBERT LAWRENCEMissionaries in foreign-mission lands speak much of the peculiar, deadening, moral atmosphere there.
QUIET TALKS WITH WORLD WINNERSS. D. GORDONNothing is more deadening and more commonplace than this peculiar form of wit, when it becomes a habit or offers itself in a mass.
LITERATURE IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPORTER LANDER MACCLINTOCKNight and the March moon awake the winter-dormant wilderness from the white man's deadening spell.
THE FIRING LINEROBERT W. CHAMBERSNo doubt they had been present at many similar scenes, and custom is a deadening factor.
THE SHRIEKING PITARTHUR J. REESUnyielding obstinacy in discussion is deadening to conversation, and yet the extreme contrary is crippling.
CONVERSATIONMARY GREER CONKLINConversation at its highest is the most delightful of intellectual stimulants; at its lowest the most deadening to intellect.
CONVERSATIONMARY GREER CONKLINThe climate is monotonous and deadening, rather than enlivening.
PRACTICAL EXERCISES IN ELEMENTARY METEOROLOGYROBERT DECOURCY WARDNovel-reading is a considerable factor in flattening and deadening the mind.
A WORD TO WOMENMRS. C. E. HUMPHRYWORDS RELATED TO DEADENING
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