Word: deadening
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...Slip. In Atlantic City, N.J., Mrs. Mary Clark, 39, pleading guilty to a charge of drunkenness, explained that she followed her dentist's advice and gargled with whisky to deaden the pain, "but some must have spilled down my throat...
...wrote Byron's better self, "and I feel it bitterly, that a man should not consume his life at the side and on the bosom of a woman, and a stranger . . . But I have neither the strength of mind to break my chain, nor the insensibility which would deaden its weight...
These Fellows are not bookworms, though. It is interesting to note that soundproofing had to be installed in the dining room to deaden the noise of the lively Monday night discussions. President Robert Sproul of the University of California is reported to have the loudest voice of the guests...
...what he found with mingled love and horror. When he died in 1922, he left a mountain of legends about himself-of the fabulous invalid who nearly always wrote in bed, with his manuscript propped on his knees; of the Paris room whose walls were lined with cork to deaden all sound of the world outside. Besides his monumental Remembrance of Things...
According to students of the subject, there are three kinds of painkiller. Some deaden tissue locally. When the dentist shoots procaine, for instance, into gums, it painproofs that area only and keeps it from flashing pain messages toward the brain...