Found 3 items, similar to Deadening.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: deaden menghilangkan, mengurangi, meredamkan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: deadening 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” [syn: boring, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome] n : the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) [syn: stultification, constipation, impairment]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Deadening Deaden \Dead"en\ (d[e^]d"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deadened (d[e^]d"'nd); 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. [1913 Webster] As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 2. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway. [1913 Webster] 3. To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine. [1913 Webster] 4. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size. [1913 Webster] 5. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]