is deadening
- present progressive of deaden (3rd person singular).
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
Said Experimenter Midgley: ''The best way I can describe this sensation is to say that it is deadening.
From Time Magazine Archive
The machine teacher.—Such work is deadening and disheartening.
From The Vitalized School by Pearson, Francis B.
