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Deaden

verb

(past & past part. deadened; pres. part. deadening)

Make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible. Synonyms: damp, dampen.

Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients. Synonym: girdle.

Make vapid or deprive of spirit.

Lessen the momentum or velocity of.

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

Make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation. Synonym: blunt. "Deaden a sound"

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

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"Deaden" Quotes from Famous Books

... the men finished knotting their ropes together. With weighted ends muffled to deaden their fall upon the rock floor, they began casting to get contact ...

— The Cavern of the Shining Ones • Hal K. Wells

... they had fastened the bandage across his mouth so tight; but he could see out of one eye. And lying there, Cadger watched the two yeggs go through the whole operation of getting nitroglycerine planted, and using all sorts of clothes and even the rugs off the floor of the president's room to deaden the ...

— The Aeroplane Boys Flight - A Hydroplane Roundup • John Luther Langworthy

... endure to have her look at another as she looked at me when our hands touched, but I could not utter a word; and I saw her lip quiver, and the hopeless look deaden her ...

— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers

... stood near the divan, and he moved this immediately under the trap. Upon it he laid a leopard-skin to deaden any noise he might make, and then upon the leopard-skin he set a massive chair: he replaced his torch in his pocket and drew himself up on to the roof again. Reclosing the trap by means of the awl which ...

— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer

... Here, if a sermon be prolonged a little beyond the usual hour, doth it not set half the audience asleep? as I question not I have by this time both my children. Well, then, like a good-natured surgeon, who prepares his patient for a painful operation by endeavouring as much as he can to deaden his sensation, I will now communicate to you, in your slumbering condition, the news with which I threatened you. Your good mother, you are to know, is dead at last, and hath left her whole fortune ...

— Amelia (Complete) • Henry Fielding

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