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.