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2 definitions found 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]: deadened adj 1: 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}] 2: made or become less intense; "the deadened pangs of hunger"
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