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Definition of Deaden

1. Verb. Make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible. "Muffle the message"

2. Verb. Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients. "Girdle the plant"

3. Verb. Make vapid or deprive of spirit. "Deadened wine"

4. Verb. Lessen the momentum or velocity of. "Deaden a ship's headway"

5. Verb. Become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor.

6. Verb. Make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation. "Deaden a sound"

7. Verb. Convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil.

Definition of Deaden

1. v. t. 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.

2. v. t. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen.

Definition of Deaden

1. to diminish the sensitivity or vigor of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deaden

dead-end host dead-end street dead-eye dead-man's-fingers dead-man's float dead-men's-fingers dead-on(a) dead-stroke deadbeat deadbeat

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