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Showing words for DEADENING using the English dictionary

9 Letter Words for Deadening

deadening

7 Letter Words for Deadening

adenine, deading, deaning, deeding, deigned, endeign, engined, needing

6 Letter Words for Deadening

adding, adenin, aedegi, aedine, anding, dading, daeing, dained, dandie, danged, deaden, deaned, deeing, denied, denned, dinged, dingee, dinned, eaning, ending, engine, ennage, ennead, gained, genian, genned, giddea, ginned, ideaed, indane, indeed, indene, ingene, innage

5 Letter Words for Deadening

adige, agend, agene, aided, ainee, anded, anend, annie, daine, deign, denda, diane, didna, diene, digne, dined, dinge, eaned, edged, eigne, enage, ended, endia, eneid, engin, ennia, gaddi, gadid, gaine, genae, genie, genin, gnide, inane, indan, ingan, inned, nandi, needn, nided, nidge

4 Letter Words for Deadening

addn, aden, aged, agee, agen, agin, agni, aide, aine, anne, anni, dade, dain, dand, dane, dang, dead, dean, deda, deed, deen, deia, deid, dene, deni, diag, dian, didn, died, dine, ding, eadi, edda, edea, eden, edge, egad, eide, eine, ende, ened, gade, gadi, gaen, gaid, gain, gane, gean, gedd, geed, gein, gena, gene, gied, gien, ginn, idea, idee, igad, inde, indn, inga, inne, nagi, naid, naig, nain, nane, need, nein, nene, ngai, nide, nied, nina, nine

3 Letter Words for Deadening

add, ade, age, aid, ain, and, ane, ann, dad, dae, dag, dan, dea, ded, dee, deg, dei, den, dia, did, die, dig, din, dna, ead, ean, edd, eeg, een, end, ene, eng, gad, gan, ged, gee, gen, gid, gie, gin, ida, ide, ign, ind, ing, inn, nad, nae, nag, nea, ned, nee, neg, nei, nid, nie, nig, nne

Definitions for Deadening

[1] a device or material employed to deaden or render dull.
[2] a device or material preventing the transmission of sound.
[3] a woodland in which the trees are killed by girdling prior to being cleared.
[4] to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken: to deaden sound; to deaden the senses; to deaden the force of a blow.
[5] to lessen the velocity of; retard: to deaden the headway of a ship.
[6] to make impervious to sound, as a floor.
[7] to become dead.
[8] to make or become less sensitive, intense, lively, etc; damp or be damped down; dull
[9] (tr) to make acoustically less resonant he deadened the room with heavy curtains

Words related to Deadening

impair, desensitize, abate, mute, reduce, smother, cushion, soften, hush, stupefy, check, weaken, paralyze, depress, deprive, slow, tire, injure, damp, repress

Words nearby Deadening

deadbeat, deadbeat dad, deadbolt, deadboy, deaden, deadening, deadeye, deadfall, deadhead, deadlight, deadline

Origin of Deadening

First recorded in 1655–65; dead + -en1

Other words from Deadening

dead·en·er , noun
un·dead·ened , adjective

Synonyms for Deadening

desensitize, impair, abate, alleviate, anesthetize, benumb, blunt, check, chloroform, consume, cushion, damp, dampen, depress, deprive, destroy, devitalize, dim, dope, drown, dull, etherize, exhaust, freeze, frustrate, gas, hush, incapacitate, injure, lessen, mute, numb, paralyze, quieten, reduce, repress, retard, slow, smother, soften, stifle, stun, stupefy, suppress, tire, unnerve, weaken, KO, knock out, lay out, put out of order, put to sleep, tone down