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v. To render less intense, sensitive, or vigorous: a medication to deaden the pain; wall tiles that deaden the sound from the rehearsal studio.

v. To make soundproof.

v. To make less colorful or brilliant.

verb-intransitive. To become dead.

verb-intransitive. To lose vigor, brilliance, or liveliness.

v. To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.

v. To become less lively; to diminish (by itself).

v. To make soundproof.

v. To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt

v. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard.

v. To make vapid or spiritless.

v. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure.

v. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen.

To make dead (in a figurative sense); render less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; impair the sensitiveness or the strength of; dull; weaken: as, to deaden sound; to deaden the force of a ball; to deaden the sensibilities.

To retard; hinder; lessen the velocity or momentum of: as, to deaden a ship's way (that is, to retard her progress).

To make impervious to sound, as a floor.

To make insipid, flat, or stale: said of wine or beer.

To deprive of gloss or brilliancy: as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.

To kill; especially, to kill (trees) by girdling.

v. lessen the momentum or velocity of

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

v. make vapid or deprive of spirit

v. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients

v. make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible

v. make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation

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

"The air in the little chamber surrounding the mirror is compressed at will, so as to act like a cushion, and 'deaden' the movements of the mirror."

deadened    deadening    deadens   

retard    change    modify    alter    incise    soften    break    damp    dampen    weaken   

retard    obscure    deafen    dull    benumb    numb    stupefy   

Armageddon    armageddon    leaden    ledden    redden    snedden