1. deaden - Adjective
2. deaden - Verb
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 dictionaryTime 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