deadening

English

Verb

deadening

  1. present participle of deaden

Noun

deadening (plural deadenings)

  1. 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.
  2. A forest clearing created by girdling the trees.
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