deaden

thick walls that deaden street noises

a medication to deaden the pain; wall tiles that deaden the sound from the rehearsal studio.

The dentist deadened the nerve with novocaine.

ether was used to deaden the pain.

diabetes can deaden the nerve endings.

laughter might deaden us to the moral issue.

Wood is used to deaden the noise.

The driver deadened the noise of the car with a new muffler.

the syllabus has deadened the teaching process.

technology can deaden the human spirit or lift it to the farthermost corners of our imaginations.

A soft varnish and an insufficient undercoating have a tendency to deaden heavily the sound of a violin.

Because their nerves are deadened from being so stupid.

That's because their nerves are probably deadened from being so stupid.

A murmur of voices, deadened by the heavy hangings, came from the principal drawing-room.

The noise of the water drumming in the kettle deadened her pain, it seemed.

The sympathies of our nature are strengthened by pondering cogitations, and deadened by thoughtless use.

For a moment, the deadened look in Sirius's eyes became more pronounced than ever, as though shutters had closed behind them.

In the parlor I heard a slow arpeggio, and his voice, deadened, and a denial from her.

Some thick old hangings had been nailed up before the windows, to deaden the sound of the shrieks.

" Let's go, " says Estragon, before the deadening final stage direction: " They do not move."

Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing.