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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"

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

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"Deaden" Quotes from Famous Books

... assembled on deck, it will hear no more noise than the buzzing of a big bee, as the exhaust is led away below the water-line. It won't be bad in the cabins either, even when they keep the sliding door open, for this screen of thick sail-cloth will deaden what sound there is. And it was a smart idea to utilize the power of the magneto to light up the whole boat with those ...

— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson

... of the cry, and I did not enter the inner room. No, I walked back to my writing table, put my hands over my ears—to deaden the cry—and gave myself again to work. How long I worked I don't know, but presently I heard a loud knocking at the door of my room. I sprang up and opened it. My landlady ...

— Tongues of Conscience • Robert Smythe Hichens

... from which we were distant 260 leagues. We had, at the same time, several porpoises playing about us; into one of which Mr Cooper struck a harpoon; but as the ship was running seven knots, it broke its hold, after towing it some minutes, and before we could deaden the ship's way. ...

— A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 • James Cook

... without ceasing. The great quantity of hay opposite—or straw, I believe it actually was—seemed to deaden the sound of his voice, but the silence, too, had become so oppressive that I welcomed his torrent and even dreaded the moment when it would stop. I heard, too, the gentle ticking of my watch. Each second uttered ...

— The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories • Algernon Blackwood

... law? The Master's approval is the servant's best wages. If we truly feel that 'the Lord liveth, before whom we stand, 'we shall want nothing else for our work but His smile, and we shall feel that the light of His face is all that we need. That thought should deaden our love for outward things. How little we need to care about any payment that the world can give for anything we do! If we feel, as we ought, that we are God's servants, that will lift us clear above the low aims and desires ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

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