| deadening |
| 1. v. present participle of deaden | |
| 2. n. The process by which something is deadened. | |
| 3. n. A forest clearing created by girdling the trees. | |
| deaden |
| 1. v. To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To become less lively; to diminish (by itself). | |
| 3. v. To make soundproof. | |
| to deaden a wall or a floor | |
| causing |
| 1. v. present participle of cause | |
| cause |
| 1. n. (often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result. | |
| They identified a burst pipe as the cause of the flooding. | |
| 2. n. (especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion. | |
| There is no cause for alarm. | |
| The end of the war was a cause for celebration. | |
| 3. n. A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair. | |
| 6. n. (legal) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action. | |
| 7. v. To set off an event or action. | |
| The lightning caused thunder. | |
| 8. v. To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority. | |
| His dogged determination caused the fundraising to be successful. | |
| 9. v. To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse. | |
| apathy |
| 1. n. Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something). | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| dullness |
| 1. n. The quality of being slow of understanding things; stupidity. | |
| 2. n. The quality of being uninteresting; boring or irksome. | |
| 3. n. Lack of interest or excitement. | |
| 4. n. The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen. | |
| 5. n. (of an edge) bluntness. | |
| 6. n. The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly. | |
| 7. n. (archaic) Drowsiness. | |
