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Deadening
- verb - become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
- convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
- cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant"
- lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
- make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"
- make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
- 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 i
Deafening
- verb - be unbearably loud; "a deafening noise"
- loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss
- make or render deaf; "a deafening noise"
- make soundproof; "deafen a room"
Declining
- verb -
- go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped"
- go down; "The roof declines here"
- grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"
- grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"
- inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"
- show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike"
- Turn down
Deepening
- verb - a process of becoming deeper and more profound
- accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the thickening dusk"
- become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password"
- become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"
- make deeper; "They deepened the lake so that bigger pleasure boats could use it"
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions"
Dehorning
- verb - prevent the growth of horns of certain animals
- take the horns off (an animal)
Demeaning
- verb - causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
- reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"
Deplaning
- verb - get off an airplane
Designing
- verb - concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger"
- conceive or fashion in the mind; invent; "She designed a good excuse for not attending classes that day"
- create designs; "Dupont designs for the house of Chanel"
- create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner; "Chanel designed the famous suit"
- intend or have as a purpose; "She designed to go far in the world of business"
- make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form; "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the museum"
- make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"
- plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect; "This room is not designed for work"
- the act of working
Destining
- verb - decree or designate beforehand;
- design or destine; "She was intended to become the director"
Detaining
- verb - cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform"
- deprive of freedom; take into confinement
- stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!"