About The Word Deaden
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Deaden
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What's The Definition Of Deaden?
[v] convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
[v] make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound" [v] become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor [v] make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message" [v] lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway" [v] make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine" [v] cut a girdle around (a plant) so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients Synonyms | Synonyms for Deaden: blunt | girdle Related Terms | Find terms related to Deaden: abate | absorb the shock | allay | alleviate | anesthetize | appease | assuage | attemper | attenuate | baffle | bank the fire | bedaze | benumb | besot | blunt | break the fall | chasten | chloroform | coldcock | constrain | control | cramp | cripple | cushion | damp | dampen | deaden the pain | deafen | debilitate | de-emphasize | desensitize | devitalize | diminish | dope | downplay | drug | dull | ease | ease matters | enervate | enfeeble | etherize | eviscerate | exhaust | extenuate | foment | freeze | give relief | gruel | kayo | keep within bounds | knock out | knock senseless | knock stiff | knock unconscious | KO | lay | lay low | lay out | lenify | lessen | lighten | lull | mat | mitigate | moderate | modulate | mollify | muffle | mull | mute | narcotize | neutralize | numb | obtund | offset | pad | palliate | palsy | paralyze | play down | poultice | pour balm into | pour oil on | put to sleep | rattle | reduce | reduce the temperature | relieve | restrain | salve | sap | shake | shake up | show consideration | show mercy | show pity | slacken | slake | slow down | smother | sober | sober down | soften | soften the blow | soften up | soft-pedal | soothe | stifle | stop | stun | stupe | stupefy | subdue | suppress | tame | temper | tone down | tune down | unbrace | undermine | underplay | unman | unnerve | unstrengthen | unstring | weaken See Also | alter | break | change | convert | damp | dampen | incise | obtund | petrify | retard | soften | weaken Deaden In Webster's Dictionary \Dead"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deadened}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Deadening}.] [From {Dead}; cf. AS. d?dan to kill, put to
death. See {Dead}, a.]
1. To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or
sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt;
as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a
sound.
As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its
vibrations. --Longfellow.
2. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to
deaden a ship's headway.
3. To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
4. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to
deaden gilding by a coat of size.
\Dead"en\, v. t. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen. |
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