'Deaden' definitions:
Definition of 'deaden'
(from WordNet)
verb
Make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message" [syn: dampen, deaden, damp]
verb
Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant" [syn: girdle, deaden]
verb
Make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
verb
Lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
verb
Become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
verb
Make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound" [syn: deaden, blunt] [ant: animate, enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up]
verb
Convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
Definition of 'Deaden'
From: GCIDE
- Deaden \Dead"en\ (d[e^]d"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deadened (d[e^]d"'nd); 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. [1913 Webster]
- As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'deaden'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- absorb the shock,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- anesthetize,
- appease,
- assuage,
- attemper,
- attenuate,
- baffle,
- bank the fire,
- bedaze,
- benumb,
- besot,
- blunt,
- break the fall,
- chasten,
- chloroform,
- coldcock,
- constrain,
- control,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- cushion,
- damp,
- dampen,
- de-emphasize,
- deaden the pain,
- deafen,
- debilitate,
- desensitize,
- devitalize,
- diminish,
- dope,
- downplay,
- drug,
- dull,
- ease,
- ease matters,
- enervate,
- enfeeble,
- etherize,
- eviscerate,
- exhaust,
- extenuate,
- foment,
- freeze,
- give relief,
- gruel,
- kayo,
- keep within bounds,
- knock out,
- knock senseless,
- knock stiff,
- knock unconscious,
- KO,
- lay,
- lay low,
- lay out,
- lenify,
- lessen,
- lighten,
- lull,
- mat,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modulate,
- mollify,
- muffle,
- mull,
- mute,
- narcotize,
- neutralize,
- numb,
- obtund,
- offset,
- pad,
- palliate,
- palsy,
- paralyze,
- play down,
- poultice,
- pour balm into,
- pour oil on,
- put to sleep,
- rattle,
- reduce,
- reduce the temperature,
- relieve,
- restrain,
- salve,
- sap,
- shake,
- shake up,
- show consideration,
- show mercy,
- show pity,
- slacken,
- slake,
- slow down,
- smother,
- sober,
- sober down,
- soft-pedal,
- soften,
- soften the blow,
- soften up,
- soothe,
- stifle,
- stop,
- stun,
- stupe,
- stupefy,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- tame,
- temper,
- tone down,
- tune down,
- unbrace,
- undermine,
- underplay,
- unman,
- unnerve,
- unstrengthen,
- unstring,
- weaken