deaden
to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken: to deaden sound; to deaden the senses; to deaden the force of a blow.
to lessen the velocity of; retard: to deaden the headway of a ship.
to make impervious to sound, as a floor.
to become dead.
Origin of deaden
1Other words for deaden
Other words from deaden
- dead·en·er, noun
- un·dead·ened, adjective
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How to use deaden in a sentence
To invent a sound-deadener to put on the pistol is working on wrong lines; it is not simplification but it is complication.
The Modern Pistol and How to Shoot It | Walter Winans"I fears me thet wound's mighty liable ter be a deadener," he said.
A Pagan of the Hills | Charles Neville Buck
British Dictionary definitions for deaden
/ (ˈdɛdən) /
to make or become less sensitive, intense, lively, etc; damp or be damped down; dull
(tr) to make acoustically less resonant: he deadened the room with heavy curtains
Derived forms of deaden
- deadener, noun
- deadening, adjective
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