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deadeningverbpresent participle of deaden to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitalityan excess of detail deadens much of the mystery novel's suspense castrating, dampening, damping, dehydrating, desiccating, devitalizing, enervating, gelding, lobotomizing, petrifying burning out, debilitating, doing in, draining, enfeebling, exhausting, fatiguing, sapping, tuckering (out), undermining, weakening, wearing, wearing outdaunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting bracing, energizing, enlivening, invigorating, quickening, stimulating, vitalizing, vivifying arousing, rousing, stirringcharging, electrifying, galvanizingexciting, fermenting, firing, fomenting, inciting, inflaming(also enflaming), instigating, kindling, provoking, sparking, triggering, whipping (up)abetting, boosting, buoying, cheering, emboldening, fortifying, heartening, inspiring, liftingreactivating, reanimating, reawakening, reawaking, recharging, reenergizing(or re-energizing), refreshing, regenerating, rejuvenating, rekindling, renewing, resurrecting, resuscitating, revitalizing, reviving to reduce or weaken in strength or feelinga couple of aspirins deadened the headache benumbing, blunting, cauterizing, dampening, damping, dulling, numbing muffling, muting, toning (down)decreasing, diminishing, lessening, letting up (on), lowering, reducing, subduingdebilitating, enfeebling, weakeningdwindling, receding, subsiding, tapering (off), waningalleviating, easing, lighteningabating, moderating sharpening, whetting amplifying, augmenting, beefing (up), boosting, consolidating, deepening, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifying, redoubling, stepping up, strengtheninganimating, arousing, stimulating ca. 1874 |