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Deadened

adjective

1.

Devoid of physical sensation; numb. Synonym: dead. "She felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth" , "A public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"

2.

Made or become less intense.

Deaden

verb

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

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Make vapid or deprive of spirit.

4.

Lessen the momentum or velocity of.

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

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"Deadened" Quotes from Famous Books

... waned; the wind sighed and sighed; the dreary rain fell; the trees clashed their boughs dolorously together, and their turbulence deadened the sound of galloping horses. As Dundas sat and gazed at the girl's intent head, with its fleecy tendrils and its massive coil, the great hounds beside her, all emblazoned by the firelight upon the brown wall near by, with the vast fireplace at hand, the whole less like reality ...

— The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

... invisible movements, the sound of his footsteps deadened by the carpet; and they did not doubt but that he had already crossed ...

— The Confessions of Arsene Lupin • Maurice Leblanc

... applied the spark bravely to the match. The spark—a feeble spark, first principle of conflagration—shone in the darkness like a glow-worm, then was deadened against the match which it set fire to, Porthos enlivening the flame with his breath. The smoke was a little dispersed, and by the light of the sparkling match objects might, for two seconds, be distinguished. It was a brief but splendid spectacle, that of this giant, pale, bloody, ...

— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... Stones fell from deadened hands and the threatening growls and cries were lost in a unanimous gasp of alarm. A moment's pause and then—utter rout. There was a mad stampede and in a trice the street was empty. Rebecca was alone under that inoffensive ...

— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye

... each other with appalling swiftness, and nothing was done. By imperceptible degrees his horror of San Giacinto began to invade his mind even when it was most deadened by drink. So long as an idea is new and has not really become a habit of the brain, brandy will drive it away, but the moment must inevitably come when the stimulant loses its power to obscure the memory of the thing dreaded. Opium ...

— Sant' Ilario • F. Marion Crawford

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