deaden
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The evening signaled that this is not the type of show that will deaden an artist behind glass vitrines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
The flares instantly set fire to the surrounding acoustic foam panels, installed to deaden the sound.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026
The biggest is the ball and the size of the stitches, Nathan said, and MLB made slight adjustments to deaden the ball prior to the 2021 season.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
I’m to the point of considering bringing in a speaker to deaden their noise or broadcast an offensive podcast at them.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2023
I shake my hand to deaden the pain.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
He suffered two near-fatal poisonings in 2015 and 2017 and developed polyneuropathy, a condition that deadens the feeling in his limbs.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
Lyndall Gordon’s endured a “boredom that deadens the air around my father”.
From Economist ● Apr. 19, 2018
With about 300 pitches per game, this deadens things.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2017
The appeal of these characters challenges the habit of demographic pigeonholing that deadens and deforms too much of the discussion of popular culture.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2015
I find myself pawing at my left ear periodically, trying to clean away whatever deadens its ability to collect sounds.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
For others, stop-start has deadened the joy of driving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
I certainly think it's made me a more appreciative one, especially coming out of winter — a season where my senses inevitably feel a little deadened after marching through a procession of gray, sunless days.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023
It’s pleasant to type on, thanks to each key’s even and clear sound signature, lacking ping or hollowness — though some may find it overly deadened.
From The Verge ● Aug. 30, 2022
“We cannot remain insensitive, our hearts deadened, before the misery of so many innocent people. We must not fail to weep. We must not fail to respond.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2019
Milo asked in a voice deadened with awe.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
The decision still means joy or despair, but the virtual nature of acceptance and rejection, the evidence of no human hand, is a little deadening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Likewise, many well-known geniuses like Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, who were chased out of Europe by the Nazis, brilliantly exposed the hypocrisies and soul deadening conformity of mainstream American culture.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
If You're Glad I'll Be Frank imagined the speaking clock as a real woman speaking live, her internal monologue utterly at odds with the deadening repetitiveness of endlessly intoning "at the third stroke..."
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
Overall, “Corsage” shows a tantalizing way forward for the hopelessly staid biopic genre: honoring, provoking and upending with verve and humor as it liberates a complex woman from iconography’s deadening glamour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
That too I've learned in the cellar, and not by deadening my sense of perception; I'm invisible, not blind.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
