75 collocations for deadening

I turned from the window, and walked once across the room, the heavy dust deadening the sound of my footsteps.

The tired man who does not understand the effects of alcohol often supposes that it increases his strength, when in fact it only deadens his sense of fatigue by paralyzing his nerves.

The soulless, practised, and specious reasoning of the state, had long since deadened all feeling in the senator on any subject that touched an interest so vital as the maritime power of the Republic.

A few tablespoonfuls of carbolic acid solution to one pint may be added to this mixture to help deaden the pain.

The repeated tasting of one substance rapidly deadens the sensibility, probably by over-stimulation.

The Ramblin' Kid started to hand the cup to Gyp to be refilleda queer numbness swept over himthe cup fell from his handhe swayedtensed his body in an effort to get upmumbled thickly: "What th'what th'?" The tout backed away toward the door, crouching like a cat ready to spring, his beady eyes half-frightened, watching the poison deaden the faculties of the other.

It was a poor day for hunting, for the eye could not see forty yards; but it suited my purpose, since the dull air would deaden the noise of my musket.

A clean floor, with a few rugs to deaden the footsteps, is much better than a woolen carpet.

The house was but slightly fortified about the exterior by a few logs hastily thrown up, while inside the house was padded with feather-beds to deaden the force of the bullets.

I deadened my heart to memories, took my courage in both hands, and forced myself to the ordeal.

If I were to lose him, I am afraid it would exceedingly deaden my affection for any other children I may have."

At first I nearly felt mad with horror, but gradually custom deadened the sensation, and although it remained disagreeable, I could contemplate it without emotion.

Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.

" The first few spoonfuls had already partly deadened my worst pangs, so following his advice I slackened down the pace to a somewhat more normal level.

So long as we require our schoolmasters to be politic, conforming, undisturbing men, setting up Polonius as an ideal for them, so long will their influence deaden the souls of our sons.

I observed also, that she let go all her bow-lines, which seemed much to deaden her way, of which there still remained sufficient, notwithstanding, to carry her well clear of us.

The dreadful words had indeed produced the adequate effect, but not in the most common way, for we are to keep in view that it is not the most shrinking and sensitive natures that are always the readiest to faint; and there was, besides, the aforesaid conviction of impossibility which, grasping the mind by a certain force, deadened the ear to words implying the contrary.

"In the Rue Bourbon-Villeneuve they had not even asked a mattress of the 'shopkeepers,' although, the barricade being bombarded, they needed them to deaden the effect of the balls.

Nature was before man with her anesthetics: the cat's first shake stupefies the mouse; the lion's first shake deadens the man's fear and feeling; and the crotalus paralyzes before he strikes.

Family jealousies and jars deadened the fervour of her devotion.

Fain would I wish what my heart cannot will: Between it and the fire a veil of ice Deadens the fire, so that I deal in lies; My words and actions are discordant still.

The floor was overlaid with thick rugs which deadened her footfalls.

Most of the fairies have been put in, and the gradual change from glamour to disillusion, cunningly conveyed by a stream of cold grey morning light entering the magic cavern from realms of upper earth, to deaden the glitter, pale the colouring, and strip, as it were, the tinsel where it strikes.

At once the soft sandy-soil received and deadened the impact of her hoofs.

But I know some sceptical critics will ask, does not the way in which he is accustomed to regard mountains rather deaden their poetical influence?

75 collocations for  deadening