deadening

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of deaden

   Until, of course, the war and its aftermath came to lay their deadening hand on all railway progress.

   1948 January and February, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 48

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   So, how are we going to persuade the current government that command-and-control is a deadening leadership style which can never deliver the financial results of a liberated rail industry?

   2024 January 10, Chris Green, “Empowered...energised... and managing for success”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 22

plural deadenings

1. The process by which something is deadened.

   The structural theory doesn't only focus on the negations, repressions, disavowals, and deadenings of the ego in the face of its encounters within and without.

   2012, Daniel Sapen, Freud's Lost Chord: Discovering Jazz in the Resonant Psyche, page 38

2. A forest clearing created by girdling the trees.

comparative more deadening · superlative most deadening