deaden

Speech parts

1. deaden - Adjective

2. deaden - Verb

Meaning

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.

To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.

To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.

To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

blunt damp girdle dampen harden hush reduce kill drug decrease moderate ease quiet suppress silence
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Antonyms

enliven badger kindle bud quicken increase
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Hypernyms

convert change retard break alter modify

Hyponyms

break weaken damp soften dampen obtund

Derivatives

deadened deadening

Examples

Time has laid his hand Upon my heart gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe but there is a woe that is madness. Herman Melville

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others. Max Lerner

About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting. Terry Kath

Terror blunted her feelings Source: Internet

deaden a sound Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

deadcentered deaddiction deade deadend deadender deadened