"Deadening" is a word in ENGLISH

Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind.

Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.

An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the …

To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.

To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or …

To become damp; to deaden.

That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a …

To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.

To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to …

To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.

To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.

To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.

of Deaden

One who, or that which, deadens or checks.

Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.

That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens …

To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.

To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.

To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.