has deadened
- present perfect of deaden (3rd person singular).
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
It has deadened our feelings on that subject, though I hope without shaking our principles.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various
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 Maclaren, Alexander
Nothing, for instance, has deadened the interest of children in plant life so much as the study of botany.
From The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young by Morley, Margaret Warner
