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Adjective deadening has 1 sense
  1. boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome - 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"
    Antonym: interesting (indirect, via uninteresting)
,Noun deadening has 1 sense
  1. stultification, constipation, impairment, deadening - the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
    --1 is a kind of degradation, debasement
    Derived forms: verb deaden6, verb deaden5
,Verb deaden has 7 senses
  1. dampen, deaden, damp - make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"
    --1 is one way to dampen, damp, soften, weaken, break
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. girdle, deaden - cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant"
    --2 is one way to incise
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. deaden - make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
    --3 is one way to     change, alter, modify
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  4. deaden - lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
    --4 is one way to     retard
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  5. deaden - become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
    --5 is one way to     change
    Derived form: noun deadening1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  6. deaden, blunt - make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
    --6 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Antonyms: enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate
    Derived form: noun deadening1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  7. deaden - convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
    --7 is one way to     convert
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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