Main entry: deaden
Definition: convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
Definition: make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
Usage: Terror blunted her feelings; deaden a sound
Main entry: deaden
Definition: become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
Main entry: damp, dampen, deaden
Definition: make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
Usage: muffle the message
Main entry: deaden
Definition: lessen the momentum or velocity of
Usage: deaden a ship's headway
Main entry: deaden
Definition: make vapid or deprive of spirit
Usage: deadened wine
Definition: cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
Usage: girdle the plant