Crossword-Solution: DEADENER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deadener | n. | One who, or that which, deadens or checks. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DEADENER | anagram | ENDEARED |
We have 10 clues for the answer “DEADENER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Noise-killer. | 1 answer |
| Painkiller, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Sound attenuator | 1 answer |
| That which devitalizes. | 1 answer |
| Benzocaine, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Novocain, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Sound suppressor | 2 answers |
| Numbing agent | 3 answers |
| A SUDDEN NUMBING DREAD | 11 answers |
| Number | 118 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEADENER (5)
Not until she accompanied a girl to an opium joint to discover whether dope had the merits claimed for it as a deadener of pain and a producer of happiness--not until then did Freddie come in person.
The "Alfáz Adwiya" (French translation) explains "Tabannuj" by "Endormir quelqu'un en lui faisant avaler de la jusquiame." In modern parlance Tabannuj is = our anæsthetic administered before an operation, a deadener of pain like myrrh and a number of other drugs.
This internal shell is capable of serving for currents of quantity, and, when the two terminals are united by a wire, it may serve as a deadener.
Second, that even in the smallest doses, as a deadener of the sense of discomfort, it blinds the man who takes it to the harm it is doing and, as soon as its temporary comforting effects begin to pass off, naturally leads its victim to resort to it again in increasing doses.
Now we know that practically all these claims are unfounded, and that such value as it has in medicine is chiefly as a narcotic, as a deadener of the sense of discomfort.
Quotes with DEADENER (3)
Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing. Let him sleep on.
Habit is a great deadener.
'Custom is the great deadener.' There is no doubt that we of the white race are going on obliviously supporting customs that would seem abhorrent and incredible to a higher and more brotherly civilization.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1949–2006).