Hypertext Webster Gateway: "deadened"
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)
deadened
adj 1: 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" [syn: {dead}]
2: made or become less intense; "the deadened pangs of hunger"
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