1. making something less intense, lively, or sensitive

1. the process of making something less intense or sensitive
2. material used to reduce sound transmission
Usage: construction

Examples

• The deadening effect of the medication helped reduce her chronic pain.
• Years of routine work had a deadening influence on his creativity.
• The carpenter installed deadening material between the walls.
• The deadening silence in the library was almost oppressive.
• Sound deadening foam was placed around the recording studio.
• The deadening of his emotions worried his family.
• Cold weather has a deadening effect on plant growth.