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And the shine from his latest gold medal hasn’t come close to deadening.

In the dressing room, Welch was "crawling around and banging my head on the floor, trying desperately to deaden the pain within", she wrote.

The truth, however, is the obscure word - meaning "to deaden" - is the name of a police-led training exercise.

But it also has a deadening clockwork quality.

And the unique geology of the city of Kyiv, built on wetlands and flood plains, deadens signals from explosions, researchers say.