Object

• nerve: The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve and destroy brain, had still to develop.

• noise: Does anyone have any comments about acoustic matting to deaden noise?

• sound: The hotel is also very noisy with tile floors and no carpets to deaden the sound.

• pain: Even more promising: a glass of wine was provided to deaden the pain of the imminent poetry.

• effect: Pour money down the throat, choke the senses and deaden the effect.

• material: No 7 had sound deadening material placed under the roof to reduce drumming.

Modifying Another Word

• not: A thin carpet in a dark color does not deaden your footsteps.

• emotionally: The wham-bam bloodiness of much American cinema ( often emotionally deadening pap granted 15 certificates ) is replaced by understated scenes of upsetting impact.

• almost: Incidentally, ' the area of ' will deaden almost any sentence, particularly when displayed prominently at the beginning.