'Deadened' definitions:
Definition of 'deadened'
From: WordNet
adjective
Devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities" [syn: dead, deadened]
adjective
Made or become less intense; "the deadened pangs of hunger"
Definition of 'Deadened'
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.]