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Deaden v. t. (past & past part. deadened; pres. part. deadening)

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."

To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.

To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.

To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.

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

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Etymology of 'Deadened'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deadened" Quotes from Famous Books

... with newer interest as they passed down the room, and so to a tight little office the walls of which were specially deadened against the ...

— The Furnace of Gold • Philip Verrill Mighels

... of the soul which were deadened by the fall, and man again saw heaven, and angels descending and ascending to ...

— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott

... his footsteps deadened in the soft pile of the Brussels carpet. She regarded his approach with cold, impassive demeanor, nodding slightly as he paused near the carved rosewood table above which hung an exquisitely wrought silver lamp, suspended by four silver chains ...

— The Substitute Prisoner • Max Marcin

... a high degree of power by enforcing a method seemingly quite at variance with the Provencial temperament, by teaching the doctrine and the discipline of a mystic death, of absolute passiveness, of entire forgetfulness of self. The dreadful crisis through which they had just passed had deadened their spirits, and weakened hearts already unmanned by a kind of morbid languor. Under Girard's leading, the Carmelites of Marseilles carried their mysticism to great lengths; and first among them was Sister Remusat, ...

— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet

... off the roof and fell into the road with a deadened thud, whilst white flakes of straw and wood-ash were flying in the wind like feathers. At the same time two of the cottages adjoining, upon which a little water had been brought to play from the rector's engine, were seen to be on fire. The attenuated spirt of water was as nothing upon the heated ...

— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy

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