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Deaden

verb

(past & past part. deadened; pres. part. deadening)

Make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible. Synonyms: damp, dampen.

Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients. Synonym: girdle.

Make vapid or deprive of spirit.

Lessen the momentum or velocity of.

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

Make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation. Synonym: blunt. "Deaden a sound"

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

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"Deaden" Quotes from Famous Books

... of flame caused by the close-range shot must have been extinguished by the murderer, or it would have continued to smoulder and expand in an ever-widening circle. And that thought led to another of much greater significance. The shot had been fired at close range to ensure accuracy of aim or deaden the sound of the report. But, whichever the murderer's intention, the second purpose had been achieved, intentionally or unintentionally. How had it happened, then, that the sound of the report ...

— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees

... Scripture comes as a rule Arithmetic. During the former lesson the teacher, acting under compulsion, does his best, as we have seen, to deaden the child's spiritual faculties. During the latter, he not infrequently does his best to deaden the child's mental faculties. In each case he is to be pitied rather than blamed. The conditions under which ...

— What Is and What Might Be - A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular • Edmond Holmes

... in the house, including a number of pieces, our possession of which I had completely forgotten, seemed to have been collected and laid in rough order upon rugs, which had been piled one upon the other to deaden noise. One man was taking it up, piece by piece, scrutinizing it with an eye-glass such as watchmakers use, and dictating descriptions and particulars to a second, who was seated at the broad writing-table, entering ...

— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates

... Cost. The first and most obvious effect of opium, for example, is to deaden pain and to arouse pleasure; but while the drug is producing these soothing sensations, it interferes with bodily functions. Secretion, digestion, absorption of food, and the removal of waste matters are hindered. ...

— General Science • Bertha M. Clark

... no understanding? So many husbands died and left wives to weep and mourn for them, and he—he—she wouldn't shed a single tear for him, she was sure of that. She would laugh, laugh! Ha, and to-night she would dance, dance! She felt as though she must deaden ...

— Absolution • Clara Viebig

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