Definition of deaden

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Deaden (a.) To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway..

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Mortify :: Mortify (v. t.) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble..
Damp :: Damp (n.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage..
Stun :: Stun (v. t.) To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing..
Dampen :: Dampen (v. i.) To become damp; to deaden.
Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame..
Deadening :: Deadening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deade.
Benumbed :: Benumbed (a.) Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind..
Buffet :: Buffet (v. t.) To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
Dead :: Dead (v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor..
Damper :: Damper (n.) That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time..
Deaf :: Deaf (a.) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
Bumper :: Bumper (n.) Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.
Impalsy :: Impalsy (v. t.) To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.
Deadened :: Deadened (imp. & p. p.) of Deade.
Deadener :: Deadener (n.) One who, or that which, deadens or checks..
Deaden :: Deaden (a.) To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine..
Pug :: Pug (v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2..
Pugging :: Pugging (v. t.) Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening..
Blase :: Blase (a.) Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.
Mull :: Mull (v. t.) To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt.
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