Deadened
['dedənd]
Definition
(adj.) made or become less intense; 'the deadened pangs of hunger' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Deaden
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Examples
- As her once elastic walk had become deadened by time, so had her natural pride of life been hindered in its blooming by her necessities. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The many sounds become so deadened that the change is like putting cotton in the ears, or having the head thickly muffled. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But her fingers were in the way and deadened the blow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They were all three more sharply on the alert, and less deadened by the miserable influences of the place and time. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There was a raw scent of chrysanthemums and tube-roses, deadened. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She was afraid lest she should even become sleepily deadened into forgetfulness of anything beyond the life which was lapping her round with luxury. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- As it descended, its dusky rays crossed the brilliant ones of the sun, and deadened or distorted them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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