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deaden

[ded-n]

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verb (used with object)

to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken: to deaden sound; to deaden the senses; to deaden the force of a blow.

to lessen the velocity of; retard: to deaden the headway of a ship.

to make impervious to sound, as a floor.

verb (used without object)

to become dead.

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Origin:
1655–65; dead + -en¹

Related forms

dead·en·er, noun

un·dead·ened, adjective

Synonyms
1. blunt, diminish, lessen, numb, dull.

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deaden (ˈdɛd^ən)

—vb
1.	to make or become less sensitive, intense, lively, etc; damp or be damped down; dull
2.	(tr) to make acoustically less resonant: he deadened the room with heavy curtains

'deadener

—n

'deadening

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

deaden

1660s "deprive of or diminish (some quality)," from dead. Earlier the verb was simply dead.

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