Deadened

Word DEADENED
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Definitions and meanings of "Deadened"

What do we mean by deadened?

To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.

To become less lively; to diminish (by itself).

To make soundproof.

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The word "deadened" in example sentences

Many of the leading organ builders now employ this thicker construction, and it is no uncommon thing to find Swell boxes measuring three inches in thickness and "deadened" with sawdust or shavings between the layers of wood of which they are formed. ❋ George Laing Miller (N/A)

A log cabin, and, occasionally, a stable and corn-crib, and a field of a dozen acres, the timber girdled or "deadened," and fenced, are enough for his occupancy. ❋ Frederick Jackson Turner (1896)

Big trees were "deadened," or killed, by cutting a ❋ John Bach McMaster (1892)

The cultivated land had been cleared by cutting away the underbrush and small trees, while the big ones had merely been "deadened," by girdling them near the ground. ❋ Leander Stillwell (1888)

A log cabin, and occasionally a stable and corn crib, and a field of a dozen acres, the timber girdled or "deadened," and fenced, are enough for his occupancy. ❋ John Mason Peck (1823)

A local priest called to the scene of the crash said several communities had been "deadened" by the loss of life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

… But her head lolled to the side, her eyes sightless, deadened. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)

When my traumatized states could not find a hospitable relational home or context of human understanding, I became deadened, and my world became dulled. ❋ Robert D. Stolorow (2011)

And their money and the con are long long gone when the camera finds the victim looking dazed and deadened soul. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the bringing of unendurable emotional pain into language and human dialogue, a deadened sense of being is reborn. ❋ Robert D. Stolorow (2011)

Silicon Valley companies should resist as long as they can the regulatory capture that deadened innovation in industries from steel to autos. ❋ L. Gordon Crovitz (2011)

Despite the degradation of his and his people's suffering, his story reminds us - especially those of us in the West whose intellectual and physical appetites have been deadened by plenty - that being human is a constant striving for the possible and the wonderful. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Leaping from nerve to nerve until, all senses deadened, he collapsed. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

How he hurried on tip toes to the howling of bears within the forest, the faded crackle of deadened fires at his ruffled back. ❋ Robert Kloss (2011)

Everything was in accordance with my state of feeling, and I experienced a glow of pleasure at finding that what of poetry and romance I ever had in me, had not been entirely deadened by the laborious and frittering life I had led. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is often a struggle to hold on to who we are through all of this; either we lose the struggle and we are lost, almost deadened, or we simply don't survive at all. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When nothing else could tempt his deadened, scarred body? ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)

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