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Deaden

verb

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

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

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

Make vapid or deprive of spirit.

Lessen the momentum or velocity of.

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

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

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

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... God, and praising the Creator. This is his paradise and his reward and perfection. Hence Plato said that philosophy is the strengthening and the help of death. He meant by this that philosophy helps to deaden all animal desires and pleasures. For by being thus delivered from them, a man will reach excellence and the higher splendor, and will enter the house of truth. But if he indulges his animal pleasures and ...

— A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy • Isaac Husik

... patience. The wonder of tobacco is that it fits itself to each one of several needs. It is the medium by which the average man maintains normality at an abnormal time. It is a device to soothe jumping nerves, to deaden pain, to chase away brooding. Tobacco connects a man with the human race, and his own past life. It gives him a little thing to do in a big danger, in seeping loneliness, and the grip of sharp pain. It brings back his cafe ...

— Golden Lads • Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason

... sixty-four gardens where the eighteenth-century Londoner, his wife and family—the John Gilpins of the day—might take their pleasure either sadly, as indeed best befits our pilgrim state, or uproariously to deaden the ear to the still small voice of conscience—the pangs of slighted love, the law's delay, the sluggish step of Fortune, the stealthy strides of approaching poverty, or any other of the familiar incidents of ...

— In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays • Augustine Birrell

... those whom they control, and, as soon as that tension is released at the highest point, a perfunctory performance with all its well-known side features, the waste and the idleness, the lack of originality and the unwillingness to take risks, must set in and deaden the work. ...

— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg

... the price of wheat flour, which is procured chiefly from Marseilles, Corsica itself producing very little. The ease with which the harvest of chestnuts is annually obtained tends to foster indolence and deaden enterprise among the peasantry. The one great danger to which the generous chestnut trees are exposed is a conflagration. Besides olives, pines, beeches and chestnuts, there are also important forests of evergreen oaks, the ...

— Itinerary through Corsica - by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads • Charles Bertram Black

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