Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person or thing that deadens, dulls, checks, or represses.
- noun In lumbering, a heavy log or timber, with spikes set in the butt-end, so fastened in a log-slide that the logs passing under it come in contact with the spikes and are retarded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, deadens or checks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something that
deadens
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Examples
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Another good sound deadener is to place foam on certain sides of the walls.
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I thought I better get back on the bike and post something before I get too comfortable sitting around reading, watching television (pay TV is an evil brain deadener), listening to music, and playing with the dogs.
January 2008 2008
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We found that we had to wrap them with fiberglass insulation as a sound deadener for installations on the upper floors of buildings, or the water flowing through them sounded like a huge leak, especially flushing toilets.
Help on New House 2006
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Tabannuj is = our anæsthetic administered before an operation, a deadener of pain like myrrh and a number of other drugs.
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We found that we had to wrap them with fiberglass insulation as a sound deadener for installations on the upper floors of buildings, or the water flowing through them sounded like a huge leak, especially flushing toilets.
Help on New House 2006
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We found that we had to wrap them with fiberglass insulation as a sound deadener for installations on the upper floors of buildings, or the water flowing through them sounded like a huge leak, especially flushing toilets.
Help on New House 2006
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We found that we had to wrap them with fiberglass insulation as a sound deadener for installations on the upper floors of buildings, or the water flowing through them sounded like a huge leak, especially flushing toilets.
Help on New House 2006
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We found that we had to wrap them with fiberglass insulation as a sound deadener for installations on the upper floors of buildings, or the water flowing through them sounded like a huge leak, especially flushing toilets.
Help on New House 2006
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We found that we had to wrap them with fiberglass insulation as a sound deadener for installations on the upper floors of buildings, or the water flowing through them sounded like a huge leak, especially flushing toilets.
Help on New House 2006
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We found that we had to wrap them with fiberglass insulation as a sound deadener for installations on the upper floors of buildings, or the water flowing through them sounded like a huge leak, especially flushing toilets.
Help on New House 2006
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