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ˈdɛd ndead·en

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dampen, deaden, dampverb

    make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible

    "muffle the message"

  2. girdle, deadenverb

    cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients

    "girdle the plant"

  3. deadenverb

    make vapid or deprive of spirit

    "deadened wine"

  4. deadenverb

    lessen the momentum or velocity of

    "deaden a ship's headway"

  5. deadenverb

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

  6. deaden, bluntverb

    make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation

    "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"

  7. deadenverb

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

Wiktionary

  1. deadenverb

    To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.

  2. deadenverb

    To become less lively; to diminish (by itself).

  3. deadenverb

    To make soundproof.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Dead, To Deadenverb

    That the sound may be extinguished or deaded by discharging the pent air, before it cometh to the mouth of the piece, and to the open air, is not probable. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    It is requisite that the tympanum be tense, and hard stretched, otherwise the laxness of that membrane will certainly dead and damp the sound. William Holder, Elements of Speech.

    This motion would be quickly deadened by countermotions; and we should not remember any thing, but ’till the next impression. Joseph Glanvill, Sceps. c. 6.

    We will not oppose any thing to them that is hard and stubborn, but by a soft answer deaden their force by degrees. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

    Our dreams are great instances of that activity which is natural to the human soul, and which is not in the power of sleep to deaden or abate. Spectator, №. 487.

    Anodyne, or abaters of pain, are such things as relax the tension of the affected nervous fibres, or destroy the particular acrimony which occasions the pain, or what deadens the sensation of the brain by procuring sleep. John Arbuthnot, on Diet.

    The beer and the wine, as well within water as above, have not been palled or deaded at all. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

ChatGPT

  1. deaden

    To deaden is to make less strong, intense, loud or severe. It can refer to reducing physical sensations or feelings, softening a sound, or dulling an emotional response.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Deadenadjective

    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. Deadenadjective

    to lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway

  3. Deadenadjective

    to make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine

  4. Deadenadjective

    to deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size

  5. Etymology: [From Dead; cf. AS. ddan to kill, put to death. See Dead, a.]

Wikidata

  1. Deaden

    Deaden is a death metal band from the U.S. founded in 1992 by drummer Ethan Deppe and guitarist Drew Stockman.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of deaden in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of deaden in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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