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1 mulling
Синонимический ряд:1. confusing (verb) addling; balling up; befuddling; bewildering; confusing; distracting; dizzying; flustering; fuddling; mixing up; muddling; throwing off; throwing out2. deadening (verb) benumbing; blunting; deadening; desensitizing; dulling; numbing3. delaying (verb) dallying; dawdling; delaying; dillydallying; dragging; lagging; lingering; loitering; poking; procrastinating; putting off; tarrying; trailing4. reflecting (verb) cerebrating; chew over; cogitating; contemplating; deliberating; meditating; musing; pondering; reflecting; revolving; ruminating; think over; think through; turn over; weighing -
2 stifling
a душный, удушающийthe atmosphere in the hall became so stifling that two of the women passed out — в зале стало так душно, что две женщины упали в обморок
Синонимический ряд:1. confining (adj.) bleak; confining; depressing; dismal; gloomy; oppressive2. stuffy (adj.) airless; breathless; close; heavy; smothering; smothery; smudgy; stivy; stuffy; suffocating; suffocative; sultry3. repression (noun) choking; extinguishment; quashing; quenching; repression; smothering; squashing; squelching; strangling; suppression; throttling4. banning (verb) banning; black out; censoring; hush up; hushing up; stifling; suppressing5. gagging (verb) asphyxiating; choking; dampening; deadening; gagging; hold back; hold down; hushing; muffling; muting; quenching; repressing; shushing; smothering; squelching; stifling; strangling; suffocating; throttling6. stultifying (verb) constipating; stagnating; stultifying; trammeling or trammelling
См. также в других словарях:
deadening — dead en*ing adj. [p. pr. of verb {deaden}[3].] Rendering less lively, intense, or vigorous; as, the deadening effect of some routine tasks. [WordNet 1.5] 2. So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; as, the deadening effect of some… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
deaden — verb (deadened; deadening) Date: 1613 transitive verb 1. to impair in vigor or sensation ; blunt < deadened his enthusiasm > < deadened the pain > 2 … New Collegiate Dictionary
deaden — verb 1》 make (a noise or sensation) less intense. ↘make insensitive. 2》 deprive of force or vitality. Derivatives deadener noun deadening adjective … English new terms dictionary
PRAYER — PRAYER, the offering of petition, confession, adoration or thanksgiving to God. In the Bible The concept of prayer is based on the conviction that God exists, hears, and answers (Ps. 65:3; cf. 115:3–7) – that He is a personal deity. In a sense it … Encyclopedia of Judaism
deaden — 1660s deprive of or diminish (some quality), from DEAD (Cf. dead) + EN (Cf. en) (1). Earlier the verb was simply dead. Related: Deadened; deadening … Etymology dictionary
deaden — [[t]de̱d(ə)n[/t]] deadens, deadening, deadened VERB If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud. [V n] He needs morphine to deaden the pain in his chest... [V n] They managed to deaden the sound on TV every time the … English dictionary
deaden — UK [ˈded(ə)n] / US verb [transitive] Word forms deaden : present tense I/you/we/they deaden he/she/it deadens present participle deadening past tense deadened past participle deadened 1) to make a feeling or a pain less strong 2) to make a sound… … English dictionary
