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Definitions: Deadening |
DeadeningAdjective1. So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome". Noun1. The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "deadening" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemical Industry | A coating to deprive a surface of gloss or brilliancy. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A method of making(on the part of man)more or less continuous incisions around a living stem, through at least both bark and cambium, generally with the object of killing the tree. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DeadeningSynonyms: boring (adj), dull (adj), ho-hum (adj), irksome (adj), slow (adj), tedious (adj), tiresome (adj), wearisome (adj), impairment (n), stultification (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Deadening |
| English words defined with "deadening": boring ♦ dull ♦ ho-hum ♦ irksome ♦ slow ♦ tedious, tiresome, Trailing spring ♦ wearisome. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | It had been serviceable in deadening the first shock, without retaining any influence to alarm. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Deadening" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 57.89% of the time. "Deadening" is used about 19 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 57.89% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 31.58% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.53% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "deadening": footfall-deadening, mind-deadening, sound-deadening. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
sound deadening | 44 |
deadening | 7 |
deadening insulation sound | 3 |
auto sound deadening | 2 |
car sound deadening | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "deadening"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 抹杀 (Deaden, Deadened). (various references) | |
Danish | ringning (girdling, ring-barking, ring-girdling, ringing), ringafbarkning (girdling, ring-barking, ring-girdling, ringing). (various references) | |
Dutch | het ringen (girdling, ring-barking, ring-girdling, ringing). (various references) | |
Finnish | kaulaaminen (cincture, girdling, ring-barking, ring-girdling, ringing). (various references) | |
French | perte de brillant, annelation, annelage, annélation. (various references) | |
German | abtötend, abstumpfend. (various references) | |
Greek | απόσβεση (amortisation, amortization, attenuation, cushioning, damping, debt retirement, depreciation, extinction, payment, quenching, redemption, repayment, repayment of borrowings, retirement), δακτυλίωσις,δακτυλιοειδής εκφλοίωσις (girdling, ring-barking, ring-girdling, ringing). (various references) | |
Italian | semplice anellatura senza aggiunta di sostanze velenose (girdling, ring-barking, ring-girdling, ringing), cercinatura (girdling, ring-barking, ring-girdling, ringing), anellazione (girdling, ring-barking, ring-girdling, ringing), anellatura (girdling, ring-barking, ring-girdling, ringing), ammortizzante. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eadeningday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anelação (girdling, ring-barking, ring-girdling, ringing). (various references) | |
Spanish | anillación (girdling, ring-barking, ring-girdling, ringing). (various references) | |
Swedish | ringbarkning (girdling, ring-barking, ring-girdling, ringing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deadening": deadeningly, deadenings. (additional references) | |
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"Deadening" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Decdesign, leadening. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "deadening" (pronounced de"duning or de"dning) |
| 5 | -d u n i ng | abandoning, broadening, burdening, gardening, hardening, maddening, pardoning, saddening, widening. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | apportioning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, bargaining, battening, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, brightening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fashioning, fastening, fattening, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, glistening, happening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, likening, listening, loosening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, quickening, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stationing, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, thickening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, weakening, whitening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-g-i-n-n" | |
-2 letters: adenine, deaning, deeding, deigned, engined, needing. | |
-3 letters: adding, aedine, danged, deaden, deaned, denied, denned, dinged, dinned, ending, engine, ennead, gained, ginned, indeed, indene. | |
-4 letters: agene, aided, deign, diene, dined, dinge, edged, ended, gaddi, gadid, genie, inane, inned, nided. | |
-5 letters: aged, agee, agin, aide, dang, dead, dean, deed, dene, deni, died, dine, ding, edge, egad, eide, gadi, gaed, gaen, gain, gane, geed, gene, gied, gien, idea, need, nene, nide, nine. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-g-i-n-n" | |
+1 letter: deadenings. | |
+2 letters: bemaddening, deadeningly, redemanding. | |
+3 letters: disentangled, undesignated. | |
+4 letters: demandingness, overdemanding. | |
+5 letters: highhandedness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 61 64 65 6E 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .- -.. . -. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100001 01100100 01100101 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e a d e n i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0061 0064 0065 006E 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387167707180758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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