deaden
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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
With her red-lipped rictus grin, her eyes that can beam with earnestness one minute and deaden with murderous resignation the next, Goth makes a sublime demon, but she’s also a creature of irreducible pathos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
“Combine that with his ability to soften the hands and deaden the contact,” Annacone wrote, “and you have terrific ingredients to execute that deft touch.”
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
I shake my hand to deaden the pain.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
But La Nina pretty much deadens shear, which is “a huge factor” for more storm activity, University of Albany hurricane researcher Kristen Corbosiero said.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2022
While I respect their sense of history and their desire for universal standards, I resist such declarations when they fossilize into something that deadens inspiration.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2019
Lyndall Gordon’s endured a “boredom that deadens the air around my father”.
From Economist ● Apr. 19, 2018
But the efforts are often clumsy, flagged with a wink-winking that deadens the gimmick, especially in a classroom scene in which a discussion of Gothic literature turns to name dropping.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 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
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
The league’s hope was that a deadened ball would cut down on home runs and increase action in the field of play.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2022
Nothing but fancy hotels, voices deadened by plush carpeting and marble, and the endless pas de deux between me and the polite server just to get the damn drink from her tray to my lips.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2019
He turns back to Signora Divino and says something in Italian and then he stamps his foot and goes upstairs and returns with the hat of Signora Divino’s deadened husband.
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
The Black Hawk helicopter was ready for take off – its rotor blades slicing through the air in the deadening heat of the Colombian Amazon.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
She then delivered a speech that denounced the notion of cultural appropriation and its deadening effects on literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 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
We already know you can kill what’s up on-screen, deadening us with your storytelling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
It was a false spring day, which, like Maureen, had pierced the shell of a deadening winter.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
