Deadening [verb]
Definition of Deadening:
diminish, muffle, quiet
Synonyms of Deadening:
● Impair
● Desensitize
● Abate
● Mute
● Reduce
● Smother
● Cushion
● Soften
● Hush
● Stupefy
● Check
● Weaken
● Paralyze
● Depress
● Deprive
● Slow
● Tire
● Injure
● Damp
● Repress
● Suppress
● Destroy
● Blunt
● Quieten
● Exhaust
● Consume
● Incapacitate
● Dope
● Chloroform
● Gas
● Frustrate
● Drown
● Unnerve
● Numb
● Freeze
● Dull
● Dim
● Retard
● Benumb
● Dampen
● Devitalize
● Stun
● Lessen
● Alleviate
● Stifle
● Knock out
● Lay out
● Tone down
● Anesthetize
● Etherize
● KO
● Put out of order
● Put to sleep
Opposite/Antonyms of Deadening:
● Brighten
● Build
● Let go
● Push
● Advance
● Encourage
● Indulge
● Help
● Allow
● Strengthen
● Raise
● Magnify
● Extend
● Enliven
● Animate
● Facilitate
● Construct
● Refresh
● Uplift
● Stimulate
● Mobilize
● Permit
● Assist
● Aid
● Invigorate
● Intensify
● Increase
● Enlarge
Sentence/Example of Deadening:
Never has there been a religion more depressing, more hopeless, more deadening to all initiative.
And in a few minutes Paul heard his father's heavy steps go thudding over the deadening snow.
Missionaries in foreign-mission lands speak much of the peculiar, deadening, moral atmosphere there.
Nothing is more deadening and more commonplace than this peculiar form of wit, when it becomes a habit or offers itself in a mass.
Night and the March moon awake the winter-dormant wilderness from the white man's deadening spell.
No doubt they had been present at many similar scenes, and custom is a deadening factor.
Unyielding obstinacy in discussion is deadening to conversation, and yet the extreme contrary is crippling.
Conversation at its highest is the most delightful of intellectual stimulants; at its lowest the most deadening to intellect.
The climate is monotonous and deadening, rather than enlivening.
Novel-reading is a considerable factor in flattening and deadening the mind.