Deadened

Definitions: Deadened

Deadened

Adjective

1. Devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities".

2. Made or become less intense; "the deadened pangs of hunger".

Date "deadened" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonym: Deadened

Synonym: dead (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Deadened

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Numbness	Adjective: numb; benumbed. Verb: deadened; intangible, impalpable.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Deadened

English words defined with "deadened": dead. (references)

Specialty definitions using "deadened": muffled sound ♦ Wine Mingled with Myrrh. (references)

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Modern Usage: Deadened

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	That's probably because their nerves are deadened from being so stupid! (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Deadened

"Deadened" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 47.06% of the time. "Deadened" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	47.06%	8	124,375
Lexical Verb (past participle)	41.18%	7	133,076
Lexical Verb (past tense)	11.76%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	17	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Deadened

Expression using "deadened": become deadened. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Deadened

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
deadened	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Deadened

Language		Translations for "deadened"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		抹杀 (Deaden, Deadening). (various references)

German		tötete ab, abgestumpft (blunted, dulled, indifferent, insensitive, jaded, truncate, truncated). (various references)

Italian		attutire (appease, become appeased, become deadened, calm down, cushion, deaden). (various references)

Pig Latin		eadenedday.(various references)

Portuguese		amortecido (weak). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Deadened

Misspellings
	"Deadened" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: D'adone, deadend, Debaene, deedeelee. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Deadened

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-d-e-e-e-n"
	-2 letters: addend, deaden, deaned, deeded, needed.
	-3 letters: added, ended.
	-4 letters: dead, dean, deed, dene, need.
	-5 letters: add, and, ane, dad, dee, den, end, nae, nee.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-d-e-e-e-n"
	+2 letters: bemaddened, redemanded.
	+4 letters: dunderheaded, woodenheaded.
	+5 letters: undereducated.
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