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DEADENED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does deadened mean?
• DEADENED (adjective)
The adjective DEADENED has 2 senses:
1. devoid of physical sensation; numb
2. made or become less intense
Familiarity information: DEADENED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Devoid of physical sensation; numb
Synonyms:
dead; deadened
Context example:
a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities
Similar:
insensitive (not responsive to physical stimuli)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Made or become less intense
Context example:
the deadened pangs of hunger
Similar:
dull (not keenly felt)
Context examples
Tom's complaints had been greatly heightened by the shock of his sister's conduct, and his recovery so much thrown back by it, that even Lady Bertram had been struck by the difference, and all her alarms were regularly sent off to her husband; and Julia's elopement, the additional blow which had met him on his arrival in London, though its force had been deadened at the moment, must, she knew, be sorely felt.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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