Deadening is valid Scrabble Word

Is deadening a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for DEADENING in dictionary:

VERB:

DEADEN, to deprive of feeling
make (a noise or sensation) less strong or intense
deprive of the power of sensation
deprive of force or vitality; stultify
make (someone) insensitive to something

NOUN:

the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)

ADJECTIVE:

so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to diminish the sensitivity or vigor of

Words related to DEADENING

deaden8 deadened11 deadens9

Words that contain DEADENING

deadenings13 deadeningly17

How to use DEADENING in a sentence

I turned from the window, and walked once across the room, the heavy dust deadening the sound of my footsteps.
The palms and fruit-trees gradually decreased in number, the cultivated ground grew less and less, and the desert spread itself before me, deadening all pleasure and animation.
And at last sleep came to her, deadening every sense.
It was thickly carpeted, deadening all sound, and the walls were hung with some heavy material, in the colour of old oak.
And the people made his heart ache, even to the deadening of his own sorrow, as he noted their wobegoneness.
He must know how to gentle her about, as one instance of a myriad, and to fill her on the other tack without deadening her way or allowing her to fall off too far.
Ishmael was not the only one who felt a deadening of the spirit that night, and even on awakening the following morning.
Deadening the way of the frigate, a boat was dropped in the water and had only to pull alongside the other vessel as it came up.
Most men work under the deadening effect of impersonal routine.
But that is a method deadening to their point of appeal.

The world outside is always with us and acting in this way, distracting thought, setting up its own standards, drawing us into its channels, and deadening the Spirit in us.
Would the triumph of socialistic principles result in deadening personal ambition? 13.
If virtue consists in deadening the nervous system to all pleasurable influences, why, you may just mark my name off the list.
In the course of their development they revolted against the deadening rule of the church and claimed for the human mind the right to reason independently.
They carried the stretcher on which lay the murdered body of the son of the house up the broad staircase, the thick carpets deadening the sound of their steps.
Repairing to an out of the way restaurant to dine, he drank a great deal of wine, contrary to his usual custom, in the hope of deadening his inward agitation.
Thus everywhere do we discover a deadening hand laid upon the self-expression of the democratic spirit through beauty.
They were therefore obliged to give up this effectual means of deadening the shock.
His attitude implied no tyranny, and he strove for no deadening conformity.
The dreadful logic of the circumstances which pointed to suicide, hammered at her consciousness with deadening persistence, but she resolutely refused to give it entry.
The duties of a sick-room are so horribly anxious, yet so deadening in their repetition of ignoble details.
Missionaries in foreign-mission lands speak much of the peculiar, deadening, moral atmosphere there.
He was conscious of his impotence chilling his blood, deadening his nerves.
It had been serviceable in deadening the first shock, without retaining any influence to alarm.
The harmless way is all day and the use of that change is that the voices have that deadening.
It is unfortunate that on earth it is commonly believed, owing to the deadening influence of material causes, that beyond the grave everything is done with a Divine unanimity.
Still those wicked sentences kept creeping into her ears and deadening her heart.
He knew only too well that fine web of soothing compromise, with which people were in the habit of deadening their consciences.

Similar words containing ADEN without suffix ing and without prefix de

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