verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He drank alcohol to deaden the pain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alcohol serves to deaden feelings which the individual can not manage, or wishes to avoid.
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Before that time, alcohol had been in general use to deaden pain, though some sturdy souls rejected it on principle.
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If he couldn't lose the feeling, perhaps he could deaden it.
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It would be spring soon, but I had been too deadened to notice.
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Repetition is considered to be deadening, boring, thoughtless.
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Soundposts are an important feature of bowed instruments but are unsuitable for plucked instruments and will deaden the sound of a dulcimer.
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When you listen to the radio, the music deadens your rhythm and causes you to create uniform sentences.