Deadening

Quick meaning: Deadening is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of deaden.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of deaden.

More Meanings

1. The process by which something is deadened.
2. A forest clearing created by girdling the trees.

Example Sentences

Until, of course, the war and its aftermath came to lay their deadening hand on all railway progress.

The structural theory doesn't only focus on the negations, repressions, disavowals, and deadenings of the ego in the face of its encounters within and without.

So, how are we going to persuade the current government that command-and-control is a deadening leadership style which can never deliver the financial results of a liberated rail industry?

Word Forms

• deadenings

Synonyms for deadening

Depending on context, synonyms include dull, tedious, irksome, wearisome, slow, impairment.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include impairment, stultification, dull, tedious, tiresome, ho-hum.

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