deaden
verb (used with object)
to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken.
had deadened
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past perfectof deaden.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The cold had deadened his limbs to sticks of bone and flesh, working without feeling to keep his head above the surface.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
His senses, which he had deadened during his ardent Samana years, were again awakened.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
The repeated shocks, the dreadful experiences and encounters, the indelible impressions of desolation and grief and suffering had deadened in Lorraine all sense of personal suffering or grief.
From Lorraine A romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Oh! for one second in which to feast his bodily eye on that dear, forgotten face, so that what time and guilt had deadened in him might revive and live anew!
From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Hermann Sudermann
I found him walking about in the up-stairs hall, but his own grief had deadened him to the fortunes of the warring companies.
From Lords of the North by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
