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Definitions for Deaden

[1] to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken: to deaden sound; to deaden the senses; to deaden the force of a blow.
[2] to lessen the velocity of; retard: to deaden the headway of a ship.
[3] to make impervious to sound, as a floor.
[4] to become dead.
[5] to make or become less sensitive, intense, lively, etc; damp or be damped down; dull
[6] (tr) to make acoustically less resonant he deadened the room with heavy curtains

Words related to Deaden

impair, desensitize, abate, mute, reduce, smother, cushion, soften, hush, stupefy, check, weaken, paralyze, depress, deprive, slow, tire, injure, damp, repress

Words nearby Deaden

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Origin of Deaden

First recorded in 1655–65; dead + -en1

Other words from Deaden

dead·en·er , noun
un·dead·ened , adjective

Synonyms for Deaden

desensitize, impair, abate, alleviate, anesthetize, benumb, blunt, check, chloroform, consume, cushion, damp, dampen, depress, deprive, destroy, devitalize, dim, dope, drown, dull, etherize, exhaust, freeze, frustrate, gas, hush, incapacitate, injure, lessen, mute, numb, paralyze, quieten, reduce, repress, retard, slow, smother, soften, stifle, stun, stupefy, suppress, tire, unnerve, weaken, KO, knock out, lay out, put out of order, put to sleep, tone down