deadens
- present tense form of deaden (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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“I’ve developed life-long friends on Twitter. I think it’s really sad that to get that human connection I’m going to have to deal with harassment again that damages and deadens your humanity.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 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
The appeal of these characters challenges the habit of demographic pigeonholing that deadens and deforms too much of the discussion of popular culture.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2015
It is hardly consoling to remember such a feeling, and so it deadens in our minds.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
