deaden
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- v make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
- v cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
- v make vapid or deprive of spirit
deadened wine - v lessen the momentum or velocity of
deaden a ship's headway - v become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
- v make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
deaden a sound - v convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
- By eliminating the hospitable jumble of shop fronts, restaurant entrances and newsstands, the walls deaden the very city life their builders claim to "revitalize.
- His pulpit thunderings were consistently concerned with Faith, and helped considerably to deaden his own still small voice of doubt.
- Edwin Pond Parker II, 39, one-time husband of Manhattan Poetess Dorothy Rothschild Parker; of an overdose of sleeping potion to deaden toothache; in Hartford.