Hypertext Webster Gateway: "deaden"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Deaden \Dead"en\, v. t.
To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Deaden \Dead"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deadened}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Deadening}.] [From {Dead}; cf. AS. d?dan to kill, put to
death. See {Dead}, a.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
deaden
v 1: quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible
[syn: {dampen}, {muffle}, {mute}, {damp}, {tone down}]
2: cut a girdle around (a plant) so as to kill by interrupting
the circulation of water and nutrients [syn: {girdle}]
3: make vapid or deprive of spirit: "deadened wine"
4: lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's
headway"
5: become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life,
force, or vigor
6: make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor,
force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her
feelings"; "deaden a sound" [syn: {blunt}] [ant: {enliven}]
7: convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of
minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
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