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Deadened

adjective

1.

Devoid of physical sensation; numb. Synonym: dead. "She felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth" , "A public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"

2.

Made or become less intense.

Deaden

verb

(past & past part. deadened; pres. part. deadening)

1.

Make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible. Synonyms: damp, dampen.

2.

Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients. Synonym: girdle.

3.

Make vapid or deprive of spirit.

4.

Lessen the momentum or velocity of.

5.

Become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor.

6.

Make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation. Synonym: blunt. "Deaden a sound"

7.

Convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil.

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"Deadened" Quotes from Famous Books

... in scattered willows farther down the stream. They sang so much they scarcely seemed to have time to feed. While approaching one that was singing by gently walking on the sward by the roadside, or where thick dust deadened the footsteps, suddenly another would commence in the low thorn hedge on a branch, so near that it could be touched with a walking-stick. Yet though so near the bird was not wholly visible—he was partly concealed ...

— Nature Near London • Richard Jefferies

... waned; the wind sighed and sighed; the dreary rain fell; the trees clashed their boughs dolorously together, and their turbulence deadened the sound of galloping horses. As Dundas sat and gazed at the girl's intent head, with its fleecy tendrils and its massive coil, the great hounds beside her, all emblazoned by the firelight upon the brown wall near by, with the vast fireplace at hand, the whole less like reality ...

— The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

... conviction as I looked. So certain was I that every gathered muscle relaxed; I drew a deep, noiseless breath of relief, smiling to myself, and stepped coolly forward, letting the secret door swing to behind me with a deadened thud. ...

— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers

... and opinions of the Acadian settlers, with whom he had been lately associated. The bitter enmity of La Tour and D'Aulney, the struggle for pre-eminence, which kept them continually at strife, had deadened every social affection and aroused the most fierce and selfish passions. They had attempted to colonize a portion of the New World, from interested and ambitious motives; their followers were in general actuated ...

— The Rivals of Acadia - An Old Story of the New World • Harriet Vaughan Cheney

... and shook the front of their dwelling so much, that both Dominick and his brother found it impossible to sleep. Their sister, however, lay undisturbed, because she reposed in an inner chamber, which had been screened off with broken planks, and these not only checked draughts, but deadened sounds. ...

— The Island Queen • R.M. Ballantyne

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