deadening
English
Verb
deadening
- present participle of deaden
Noun
deadening (plural deadenings)
- The process by which something is deadened.
- 2012, Daniel Sapen, Freud's Lost Chord: Discovering Jazz in the Resonant Psyche (page 38)
- 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.
- 2012, Daniel Sapen, Freud's Lost Chord: Discovering Jazz in the Resonant Psyche (page 38)
- A forest clearing created by girdling the trees.