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Meanings of deadening in English
Catalan
esmorteïment The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
Synonyms
Examples for "slow"
Examples for "slow"
1
The government has been extremely slow to respond to problems, he said.
2
As a result, FORM 6 was slow, extremely expensive, and incredibly good.
3
However, the rate of its rise is likely to slow, they said.
4
Police issued a record number of tickets to slow drivers last year.
5
Its secret nature, however, meant that this information was slow in coming.
1
Yet, the faint cries for help plus some dull thumping noises continue.
2
And in one as in the other the finer susceptibilities grow dull.
3
As so often with the environment, it's the dull things that work.
4
You sit dull in the market all day; you want a feast.
5
Europe's belief in a dull but safe civilisation is its main attraction.
1
Besides, I brought a book along in case the game is boring.'
2
You are naturally boring; you could try the patience of the court.
3
I might, by boring a hole in the cask, reach the water.
4
Mostly boring. And then he glanced at her seriously for a moment.
5
The following hints will be found useful when boring holes in cork.
1
The second half began in a fashion that was actually quite tedious.
2
It was tedious work but strangely satisfying to him, building a case.
3
The comparison is tedious and spun out; but the idea is poetic.
4
The work was tedious, the hours long, but crime was unheard of.
5
The journey across the heath was tedious; the clouds only passed rapidly.
1
Additionally, this evening's outing, however stressful and tiresome, served Chane's future options.
2
Because it's the most frustrating, tiresome and painstaking way of cooking food.
3
On the way to that tiresome tea-room in the Corso, my dear.
4
In addition, a tiresome obstacle may actually be very useful or helpful!
5
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
1
Reshaping your mind and learning so much history is a wearisome process.
2
The wicked were to expiate their crimes by ages of wearisome labor.
3
PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
4
There is an arenaceous quality in the style which makes progress wearisome.
5
But the doubt made his sojourn in Ireland very wearisome to him.
1
First the social life palled on me; then my work grew irksome.
2
The residence in country towns has always appeared to me very irksome.
3
This placed our adventurers in a position at once irksome and uncertain.
4
The dreary sameness of the prairie wastes began to grow extremely irksome.
5
It is a cross-grained, capricious heart; you will find its exactions irksome.
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The former is a simple letter jumble game and honestly it was ho-hum.
2
Are stun-gun equipped flying saucers just sort of ho-hum in France?
3
I thought you said virus hacker connection was a big ho-hum.
4
There are various ho-hum complaints about alterations in the relationship between the brothers.
5
At least one is a ho-hum affair that didn't deserve its full-booted kicking.
Usage of deadening in English
1
They are written in the short, deadening sentences suggestive of common sense.
2
A stupefying, deadening odour of decayed flowers struck them in the face.
3
An unearned exultation- asentimentalitydeadening something within hides around in the music.
4
No more deadening system for the intellect could possibly have been devised.
5
As the evening deepened Kyle dozed in the deadening heat and humidity.
6
His attitude implied no tyranny, and he strove for no deadening conformity.
7
He was conscious of his impotence chilling his blood, deadening his nerves.
8
A burning warmth, followed by a deadening of the mental faculties, ensued.
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Missionaries in foreign-mission lands speak much of the peculiar, deadening, moral atmosphere there.
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And of all deadening labors, that of the Northland trail is the worst.
11
But the deadening influence of the whole Russian system was evident.
12
In its mumbling, deadening force it was like a sentence on a prisoner.
13
Until then, he was deadening himself to the pain any way he could.
14
Would the triumph of socialistic principles result in deadening personal ambition?
15
Sedgett's presence had the deadening power of the torpedo on the thousand pounds.
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He went on down a winding sound-deadening path of sand towards the drinking-place.
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