Overview of verb deaden

The verb deaden has 7 senses

• dampen, deaden, damp -- (make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message")


• girdle, deaden -- (cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant")


• deaden -- (make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine")


• deaden -- (lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway")


• deaden -- (become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor)


• deaden, blunt -- (make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound")


• deaden -- (convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil)

Overview of adj deadened

The adj deadened has 2 senses

• dead, deadened -- (devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities")


• deadened -- (made or become less intense; "the deadened pangs of hunger")