deaden
verb (used with object)
to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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I am--it is difficult to express it--I am deadening.
From The Truants by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason