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the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
Used in a sentence
“Until, of course, the war and its aftermath came to lay their deadening hand on all railway progress.”
“So, how are we going to persuade the current government that command-and-control is a deadening leadership style which can never deliver the financial results of a liberated rail industry?”
“The structural theory doesn't only focus on the negations, repressions, disavowals, and deadenings of the ego in the face of its encounters within and without.”
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