Unscramble deadening

Definition of deadening

adjective:

• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; ; ; ; ; ; - Edmund Burke; ; - Mark Twain; "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", "tedious days on the train", "the tiresome chirping of a cricket", "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome". Synonyms: boring, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome.

noun:

• the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine). Synonyms: constipation, impairment, stultification.

verb:

• make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message". Synonyms: damp, dampen, deaden.
• cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant". Synonyms: deaden, girdle.
• make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine". Synonyms: deaden.
• lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway". Synonyms: deaden.
• become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor. Synonyms: deaden.
• make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings", "deaden a sound". Synonyms: blunt, deaden. Antonyms: enliven.
• convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil. Synonyms: deaden.

Related words

break, damp, dampen, obtund, petrify, soften, weaken.

Words nearby

deafening.