Search Result:deadened
Overview of verb deaden
The verb deaden has 7 senses
- dampen, deaden, damp -- (make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message")
- girdle, deaden -- (cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant")
- deaden -- (make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine")
- deaden -- (lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway")
- deaden -- (become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor)
- deaden, blunt -- (make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound")
- deaden -- (convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil)
Overview of adj deadened
The adj deadened has 2 senses
- dead, deadened -- (devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities")
- deadened -- (made or become less intense; "the deadened pangs of hunger")