deadened in English

verb

1

make (a noise or sensation) less intense.

ether was used to deaden the pain

synonyms: numb, dull, blunt, suppress, alleviate, mitigate, diminish, reduce, lessen, ease, soothe, relieve, assuage, kill, muffle, mute, smother, stifle, dull, dampen, silence, quieten, soften, cushion, buffer, absorb

adjective

dead

verb

numb, muffle, desensitize, blunt, damp, girdle
numb, dull, blunt, suppress, alleviate, mitigate, diminish, reduce, lessen, ease, soothe, relieve, assuage, kill
muffle, mute, smother, stifle, dull, dampen, silence, quieten, soften, cushion, buffer, absorb
desensitize, numb, anesthetize, harden (one's heart), toughen, inure
blunt
damp, dampen
girdle

Use "deadened" in a sentence

1. 29 The dentist deadened the nerve with novocaine.

2. Our cultural imagination about compassion has been deadened by idealistic images.

3. Synonyms for Benumbed include numb, unfeeling, insensible, insensitive, stupefied, dazed, deadened, foggy, frozen and fuzzy

4. Synonyms for Cushioned include softened, deadened, lessened, mitigated, muffled, diminished, stifled, allayed, alleviated and blunted

5. As a result, nerves were deadened below my knees, and it took three months for me to recuperate.

6. An Affair can help leverage you out of a destructive or deadened relationship that's beyond the point of renewal

7. Other hearts have been so hurt or so deadened by sin that they have an eight-foot (2.5-m) chain-link fence topped with razor wire around them.