deaden (redirected from deadens)

dead·en  (ddn)

v. dead·ened, dead·en·ing, dead·ens

v.tr.

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

2. To make soundproof.

3. To make less colorful or brilliant.

v.intr.

1. To become dead.

2. To lose vigor, brilliance, or liveliness.

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deaden·er n.

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deaden [ˈdɛd^ən]

vb

1. to make or become less sensitive, intense, lively, etc.; damp or be damped down; dull

2. (Physics / General Physics) (tr) to make acoustically less resonant he deadened the room with heavy curtains

deadener  n

deadening  adj

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	deaden - make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message" damp, dampen soften, damp, weaken, dampen, break - lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall"
	2.	deaden - cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant" girdle plant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion incise - make an incision into by carving or cutting
	3.	deaden - make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine" alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
	4.	deaden - lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway" retard - cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; "This drug will retard your heart rate"
	5.	deaden - become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
	6.	deaden - make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound" blunt alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" obtund - reduce the edge or violence of; "obtunded reflexes" petrify - cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking" soften, damp, weaken, dampen, break - lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall" liven, liven up, enliven, invigorate, animate - make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"
	7.	deaden - convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions convert - change the nature, purpose, or function of something; "convert lead into gold"; "convert hotels into jails"; "convert slaves to laborers"

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deaden

verb

1. reduce, dull, diminish, check, weaken, cushion, damp, suppress, blunt, paralyse, impair, numb, lessen, alleviate, smother, dampen, anaesthetize, benumb He needs morphine to deaden the pain in his chest.

2. suppress, reduce, dull, diminish, cushion, damp, mute, stifle, hush, lessen, smother, dampen, muffle, quieten They managed to deaden the sound.

Translations

deaden [ˈdedn] VT [+ noise, shock] → amortiguar; [+ feeling] → embotar; [+ pain] → aliviar, calmar

deaden [ˈdɛd^ən] vt

[+ blow, sound] → amortir

[+ nerve] → endormir

[+ pain, feeling] → calmer
dead end n

(lit) [road, path] → impasse f

(fig) → impasse f
to reach a dead end → être dans une impasse
see also dead-end
dead-end [ˌdɛdˈɛnd] adj
a dead-end job → un emploi sans avenir

deaden

vt shock → auffangen; pain → mildern; force, blow → abschwächen; nerve, passions → abtöten; sound, noise → dämpfen; mind, feeling → abstumpfen

deaden [ˈdɛdn] vt (noise, pain, blow, sound) → attutire; (nerve) → rendere insensibile

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deaden [ˈdɛdn] vt (noise, pain, blow, sound) → attutire; (nerve) → rendere insensibile