deadening : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: deadening	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for deadening
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
deadening adj so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" Synonym(s): boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome n the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) Synonym(s): stultification, constipation, impairment, deadening
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Deaden \Dead"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deadened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deadening}.] [From {Dead}; cf. AS. d[?]dan to kill, put to death. See {Dead}, a.] 1. To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.