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Definitions for Deadened

[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 Deadened

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

Words nearby Deadened

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Origin of Deadened

First recorded in 1655–65; dead + -en1

Other words from Deadened

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

Synonyms for Deadened

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