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Deadened

adjective
1.
Devoid of physical sensation; numb.  Synonym: dead.  "She felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth" , "A public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"
2.
Made or become less intense.


Deaden

verb
(past & past part. deadened; pres. part. deadening)
1.
Make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible.  Synonyms: damp, dampen.
2.
Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients.  Synonym: girdle.
3.
Make vapid or deprive of spirit.
4.
Lessen the momentum or velocity of.
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.  Synonym: blunt.  "Deaden a sound"  Antonym: enliven.
7.
Convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil.



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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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