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Deadening

Deadening Meaning & Definition
Deadening Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Deadening?

[n] the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
[adj] so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Deadening: boring | constipation | dull | ho-hum | impairment | irksome | slow | stultification | tedious | tiresome | uninteresting | wearisome

Related Terms | Find terms related to Deadening: abatement | abating | allaying | allayment | alleviating | alleviation | alleviative | analgesia | analgesic | anesthesia | anesthetic | anesthetizing | anodyne | appeasement | assuagement | assuaging | assuasive | attenuation | attrition | balmy | balsamic | benumbing | blunting | calming | cathartic | chastening | cleansing | cushioning | dampening | damping | debilitation | demulcent | demulsion | devitalization | dilution | diminishing | diminishment | diminution | dulcification | dulling | ease | easement | easing | effemination | emollient | enervation | enfeeblement | evisceration | exhaustion | extenuation | falling-off | fatigue | hushing | inanition | languishment | leniency | lenitive | lessening | letdown | letup | lightening | loosening | lulling | mitigating | mitigation | mitigative | modulation | mollification | narcotic | numbing | pacification | pain-killing | palliation | palliative | purgative | quietening | quieting | reducing | reduction | relaxation | relaxing | relief | relieving | remedial | remedy | remission | salving | slackening | softening | soothing | stunning | stupefying | subduement | subduing | tempering | thinning | tranquilization | weakening

See Also | debasement | degradation

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