Deadened in a sentence as an adjective

This seems weird even to my how deadened senses.

If the sound is deadened, people often feel like something more than the sound is lost.

The male aroma ramped up their stress levels, which deadened the hurt.

Furthermore, wealthier parents have jobs which exercise their minds, so they're not deadened and just want to plop in front of the TV.

In subjects that have been drinking alcohol, for example, emissions are deadened.

Looking at the list of available smells, I'm reminded that one of the positive side effects of smoking was that it deadened the sense of smell.

> I cannot understand the point of hiding deadened questions while still keeping the comments?It's all about removing the visibility.

To a degree we deal with catastrophic threats aptly without having our responses deadened by past fears never having come to fruition regularly.

To the many of you using Macbooks: be aware the that the caps lock key is deadened/delayed in order to prevent mistaken pressing, and that this is a hardware feature that can't be changed.

I teach courses on MySQL, I think the Windows / closed approach has unnecessarily deadened the average user's ability to appreciate and explore and use their computers.

Unfortunately, this true 'solution' to an individual's depression is inadvertently missed when one's mind has been deadened to believe that 'everything is Ok' by the presence of a drug.

"Abortion is ******" is something we've been deadened to through repetition, but the literal proclamation of abortion to be "******", and "******" to be ******, ethically requires extreme measures to fight it, to the believer.

Because the final selection for that prize comes at the end of the day, after the judges' palates have been deadened by endless beer tasting, and hops are about the only flavor component that is as subjectively noticeable at the end of the show as it was in the morning.

Deadened definitions

adjective

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"

See also: dead

adjective

made or become less intense; "the deadened pangs of hunger"