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5 dictionary results for: deaden

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This

dead·en

[ded-n] Pronunciation Key

–verb (used with object)

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

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

3.	to make impervious to sound, as a floor.

–verb (used without object)

4.	to become dead.

[Origin: 1655–65; dead + -en¹

]

—Related forms

dead·en·er, noun

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

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dead·en   (děd'n) Pronunciation Key
v.   dead·ened, dead·en·ing, dead·ens

v.   tr.

To render less intense, sensitive, or vigorous: a medication to deaden the pain; wall tiles that deaden the sound from the rehearsal studio.
To make soundproof.
To make less colorful or brilliant.

v. intr.

To become dead.
To lose vigor, brilliance, or liveliness.

dead'en·er n.

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deaden
verb
1.	make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message" [syn: dampen]
2.	cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant" [syn: girdle]
3.	make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
4.	lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
5.	become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
6.	make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound" [ant: animate]
7.	convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil

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Deaden

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.

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Deaden

Dead"en\, v. t. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen.

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