deaden
verb (used with object)
to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken.
has deadened
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present perfectof deaden (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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For others, stop-start has deadened the joy of driving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
The completely irresponsible manner in which we have been gobbled up and dumped at random throughout the Western world has deadened that sense of responsibility to a dull ache .
From Time Magazine Archive
He was welcomed with these wonderful and rapturous words, familiarity with which has deadened our sense of their greatness.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
This was especially the case when the birds emerged from the water, the light just then giving them the tints which the dolphin displays when first caught and before death has deadened its changing hues.
From Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
One thinks so seldom of these things, and if occasionally one hears them spoken of, familiarity with the words has deadened the hearer to their significance.
From The Great Discovery by Norman Maclean
