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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Deaden \Dead"en\, v. t. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Deaden \Dead"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deadened}; 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: deaden v 1: quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible [syn: {dampen}, {muffle}, {mute}, {damp}, {tone down}] 2: cut a girdle around (a plant) so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients [syn: {girdle}] 3: make vapid or deprive of spirit: "deadened wine" 4: lessen the momentum or velocity of "deaden a ship's headway" 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; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound" [syn: {blunt}] [ant: {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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