Thesaurus: deaden

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1. a. 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. a. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.
3. a. To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
4. a. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.
5. v. make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
6. v. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
7. v. make vapid or deprive of spirit
8. v. lessen the momentum or velocity of
9. v. become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
10. v. make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
11. v. convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
12. 1. 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. As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. Longfellow. 2. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway. 3. To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine. 4. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.