The deadened pangs of hunger.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : to deaden sound; to deaden the senses; to deaden the force of a blow. ,to deaden the headway of a ship.    From Dictionary.com. 

Big trees were "deadened," or killed, by cutting a.    From Wordnik.com.  [A School History of the United States] Reference

A log cabin, and, occasionally, a stable and corn-crib, and a field of a dozen acres, the timber girdled or "deadened," and fenced, are enough for his occupancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frontier in American History] Reference

The cultivated land had been cleared by cutting away the underbrush and small trees, while the big ones had merely been "deadened," by girdling them near the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865] Reference

The noise of the wind deadened the sound of the surf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet of the Dunes] Reference

The dust-deadened air muffled Johnny's sobbing exclamation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference

So I held the bell itself, which at least deadened the sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III.] Reference

The snow deadened every noise that might have been made otherwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Zara] Reference

It is possible that the tumult which it made deadened all other sounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

As from infinitely far away, half heard, half felt, came a low, deadened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity] Reference

Even the noise of the horses 'hoofs was deadened by the deep mud of the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

Association with Mignon had not entirely deadened her sense of right and wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference

Any noise they might have made being deadened by the firing going on just below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference

Perhaps, too, it deadened the sound of the bursting dam and the roar of the waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

Alick's conscience was by no means altogether deadened, and his triumph was dashed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference

It had to be deadened or cut away to open up a clearing for the cabin and the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

The cries behind veered and deadened, and suddenly Wilson in the prow raised his blade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

Yes, "she declared, in a deadened voice," my thoughts are going to form armor round you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

Although every sound was deadened by the fog, still the watchful Jo heard it distinctly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference

It would seem that nature had shared the blow he had received and had been deadened by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference

His deadened and depraved attention discerned only the disagreeable and ugly side of a work of art.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

These are rolled in pastry, thoroughly deadened, pinched very securely, and fried a very pale brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Cookery] Reference

By the time he returns to her, he's a changed man, paranoid, deadened, with too much blood on his hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heaviness For The Holidays] Reference

We lay down as we were, all dressed, and the train rushing and swinging along deadened my mind and feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference

Studies have shown that children who grow up amid blood and bullets become emotionally deadened to the horrors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning To Walk Away] Reference

Our innate sense of awe has been deadened by an overabundance of awesomeness. 300 billion stars in the Milky Way?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myra's Cigarettes] Reference

The thunder was only like muffled rolls, for the fury of the ocean deadened every other sound of heaven or earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference

We look out from the nest and in a barbaric way we can still sense things in the nest, fully deadened to the nest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nest] Reference

At least it had seemed so until the monotony of the rain and cold deadened his senses, allowing him to fall into a doze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

No one, even a few feet away, could have heard her call and if there had been any answer, the roar of the storm deadened it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference

Every sound was deadened, so that they could have gone directly past the ranch houses and not even the dogs would have heard them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference

Then he struck off the trail, and into the deep woods themselves where the moss and the carpet of dead leaves deadened their footsteps.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods] Reference

So many people are pleasure mad, they become so deadened by excess of enjoyment and indulgence that ordinary pleasure is uninteresting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference

The sound of the wire as it was cut was deadened as much as possible by having a man hold the strand on either side of the place to be cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam] Reference

The show was a disaster at first, deadened by a live audience and an on-camera rapport between Sawyer and Donaldson equaled today only by Nancy and Tonya.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Star Is Rehired, Fabulously] Reference