Until, of course, the war and its aftermath came to lay their deadening hand on all railway progress.
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Deadening
Synonyms for "deadening" (132 found)
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Noun(14 words)
impairmentlessenmonotonousmutenoise insulatornumbnumbingreducesound dampenerstiflingstultificationsuppressiontediousunexciting
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13 entriesadjectiveconditiondebasementdecreasedecrease sensitivitydegradationdescriptordeviceeffectmaterialmood descriptorphenomenonprocess
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16 entriesanesthetizebenumbbluntingdampenemotional numbnessfoam panelmass loaded vinylmonotonousmoral numbnessmufflenumbnumbingsoftensound deadeningtediousvibration deadening
Collocations
11 entriesacoustic deadeningdeadening atmospheredeadening effectdeadening influencedeadening materialdeadening noisedeadening of sensesdeadening panelsdeadening silencesound deadeningvibration deadening
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So, how are we going to persuade the current government that command-and-control is a deadening leadership style which can never deliver the financial results of a liberated rail industry?
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The structural theory doesn't only focus on the negations, repressions, disavowals, and deadenings of the ego in the face of its encounters within and without.
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