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Habit, Beckett said, is a great deadener, and the mind is the first to go.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2017

"I fears me thet wound's mighty liable ter be a deadener," he said.

From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville

This internal shell is capable of serving for currents of quantity, and, when the two terminals are united by a wire, it may serve as a deadener.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various

In modern parlance Tabannuj is = our anæsthetic administered before an operation, a deadener of pain like myrrh and a number of other drugs.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir