Usually means: Reducing sensitivity, intensity, or effectiveness.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. deadening: Merriam-Webster
  2. deadening: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. deadening: Collins English Dictionary
  4. deadening: Vocabulary.com
  5. deadening: Wordnik
  6. deadening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. deadening: Wiktionary
  8. deadening: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. deadening: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. deadening: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Deadening, deadening: Dictionary.com
  12. deadening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Deadening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. deadening: Rhymezone
  15. Deadening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. DEADENING: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  17. deadening: FreeDictionary.org
  18. deadening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. deadening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. deadening: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deadening: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deadening)

▸ noun:  The process by which something is deadened.
▸ noun:  A forest clearing created by girdling the trees.

Similar:
stultification, impairment, tiresome, wearisome, tedious, ho-hum, slow, irksome, uninteresting, dull, more...

Opposite:
stimulating, invigorating, energizing, refreshing, revitalizing

Phrases:
sound deadening, deadening device, more...

Adjectives:
sound, more, gradual, general, emotional, less, consequent, complete, progressive, artificial, mental

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Similar:
stultification, impairment, tiresome, wearisome, tedious, ho-hum, slow, irksome, uninteresting, dull, more...

Opposite:
stimulating, invigorating, energizing, refreshing, revitalizing

Phrases:
sound deadening, deadening device, more...

Adjectives:
sound, more, gradual, general, emotional, less, consequent, complete, progressive, artificial, mental



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