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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
deaden
    v 1: make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible;
         "muffle the message" [syn: dampen, deaden, damp]
    2: cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the
       circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant" [syn:
       girdle, deaden]
    3: make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
    4: lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
    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; "Terror blunted her feelings";
       "deaden a sound" [syn: deaden, blunt] [ant: animate,
       enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up]
    7: convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of
       minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Deaden \Dead"en\ (d[e^]d"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deadened
   (d[e^]d"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Deadening.] [From Dead; cf.
   AS. d?dan to kill, put to death. See Dead, a.]
   1. To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or
      sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt;
      as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a
      sound.
      [1913 Webster]

            As harper lays his open palm
            Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
                                                  --Longfellow.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to
      deaden a ship's headway.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to
      deaden gilding by a coat of size.
      [1913 Webster]

   5. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to
      deafen.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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