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Definition of Deaden

1. Verb. Make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible. "Muffle the message"

2. Verb. Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients. "Girdle the plant"

3. Verb. Make vapid or deprive of spirit. "Deadened wine"

4. Verb. Lessen the momentum or velocity of. "Deaden a ship's headway"

5. Verb. Become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor.

6. Verb. Make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation. "Deaden a sound"

7. Verb. Convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil.

Definition of Deaden

1. v. t. 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.

2. v. t. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen.

Definition of Deaden

1. Verb. (transitive) To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To become less lively; to diminish (by itself). ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To make soundproof. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deaden

1. to diminish the sensitivity or vigor of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deaden

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deadbolting deadbolts deadborn deade deaded deaden (current term) deadend deadends deadened deadener

deadeners deadening deadeningly deadenings deadens deadenylase deadenylases deadenylate deadenylated deadenylates

Literary usage of Deaden

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1867)
"Damp will deaden the fire of a cigar ; and there are hellish damps— alas, too many—that will deaden the early blazing of the heart. ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"years from March 10,, then the parties of the first part, or the owners of the land, shall have the right to deaden such of said trees аз may be standing ..."

3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1858)
"... which shall resist fire and ordinary decay, allow of finish, and yet deaden sound. Who is to invent and introduce such materials ? ..."

4. The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition, the Resources by Francis Bowen (1859)
"... the prizes of industry, and so far, while rendering one man improvident, wasteful, and idle, to lessen the hopes and deaden the exertions of all others. ..."

5. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1892)
"... need not damage the eyes through which we see the beauty of holiness, that the habit of investigation need not deaden the feelings of humility and love. ..."

6. The Works of William E. Channing, D.D. by William Ellery Channing (1894)
"His own spiritual history proves to him that there is a vital energy in the human soul, which vice, however it may deaden, cannot destroy. ..."

7. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1874)
"... and especially appears to deaden the sensibility of the fauces and palate. According to Dr. H. Purdon,* the first action of the bromide is to quicken ..."

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