- 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
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
In taking these she only is deadening the pain and not removing the cause, so the pain is liable to return.
From Confidences Talks With a Young Girl Concerning Herself by Lowry, Edith B. (Edith Belle)
