deadened

His experience, he believes, deadened his feelings.

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.

Outscored in the first quarter in each of their three previous games and facing a Bucks team owning the NBA’s third-best scoring differential in first quarters, the Clippers led by 15 within minutes, their defense of Giannis Antetokounmpo quieting an atmosphere already deadened by the 9 p.m. local tipoff.

“She was seated on the edge of the bed in her underwear, and she had a syringe of Demerol in her right hand. She pointed to a spot on her thigh and asked me if I would administer the shot for her. … I told her that I was sorry, but that I absolutely could not help her with this. She looked at me with deadened yet disappointed eyes.”

“If our heart is deadened and indifferent, we cannot hear their faint cry of pain, we cannot cry with them and for them, we cannot see how much loneliness and anguish also lie hidden in the forgotten corners of our cities.” he said.