Make insensitive

Usage examples of deaden.

A tremendous squeal of tires was followed by a deadening crash as the Alfa hit the truck full on.

We are only 80 feet from the centre of the orgy, but the location of doorways and arrangement of walls between us quite deadens the sound, does it not!

Using a Canon T 70 with a 135mm lens, Fogle watched as the men donned white robes, bowed to pray, and then put on ear protectors to deaden the noise before firing weapons smuggled in from the Afghan front.

Deadened by the weight of my body and the hardness of the boards, it had lost warmth, motion, and all sensation.

A deadened burst of mighty splashes and snorts reached us from afar, as though an ichthyosaurus had been taking a bath of glitter in the great river.

I practised my profession in the capital city of a state ruled over by a maharajah, who, although he had been a brave and honourable man in his prime, had degenerated into a mere voluptuary, spending his days in the companionship of nautch girls and disreputable men, indulging constantly in immoderate potations of strong wine, and given at times to the use of bhang, which does more than anything else to dull the faculties and deaden the conscience of the unfortunate who surrenders himself to its seductive spells.

Beneath that cone of neat grey felt, behind the dreary, tallowed pigment of his face, which had that thickened, stunned, and deadened look one often sees upon the faces of old bruisers, as if the violent and furious assault of stone and steel, the million harsh metallic clangours, the brutal stupefaction of the streets, at length had dried the flesh and thickened the skin, and blunted, numbed and calloused the aching tumult of the tortured and tormented senses--there still flowed blood as red and wet as any which ever swarmed into the earth below the laurel bush.

His paws were deadened by the tight bonds, but his rage was aroused and his jaws were strong.

If hospital service makes young students less tender of suffering, vivisection deadens their humanity, and begets indifference to it.

When the sterilizer beeped off, she deadened the skin with a spray from the cart.

Jack sat in the staging area alone, smoking a stim very leisurely, watching the red ash glow briefly in the darkness, before it deadened.

For hence he grew capable of communion with her in all her moods, undisabled either by the deadening effects of present, or the aversion consequent on past suffering.

Here is the world humanity has made: will you take full citizenship in it, or will you live in it as dull, as slow to receive, as unenfranchised, as the idlers for whom civilization has no uses, or the deadened toilers, men or beasts, whose labor shuts the door on choice?

He moved with the lumbering inevitability of a landslide, but as far as I could tell his only real qualifications seemed to be arms the size of axletrees and enough scar tissue to deaden the impact of a piled river.

The equatorial current, running towards the Saintes channel, was against Bucephalas, but the steady trades proved powerful enough to overcome the deadening effect of the leeway.