deaden
verb (used with object)
to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken.
will deaden
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future tenseof deaden.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The evening signaled that this is not the type of show that will deaden an artist behind glass vitrines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
I don’t, however, want to get hit in the head, which I worry will deaden my brain.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2015
“They will have all the attributes of a well-kept, dignified cemetery. . . . These projects will not revitalize downtown, they will deaden it.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2014
It is the fear that the son will grow away from them; that their caresses will deaden rather than quicken his love for them.
From Essays on Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
You'll walk the world with a dreadful knowledge, And a heavy heart and a frowning brow; And thinking deeper than a man in college, Your eye will deaden, and your back will bow.
From The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
