deaden
verb (used with object)
to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken.
is deadening
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present progressiveof deaden (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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MLB is deadening baseballs to liven up the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2021
But the music in Spider-Man is deadening in its mediocrity, tuneless and forgettable, with rhymes that rarely employ words of more than one syllable.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2011
Maybe these complaints sound like English-teacher pedantry, but the cumulative effect of such stylistic sloth is deadening.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2010
They say of marriage that it is deadening, when what they mean is that it drives us beyond adolescent fantasies and romantic dreams ...
From Time Magazine Archive
Unyielding obstinacy in discussion is deadening to conversation, and yet the extreme contrary is crippling.
From Conversation What to Say and How to Say it by Mary Greer Conklin
