deaden
deaden
deaden verb. M17
[from DEAD adjective + -EN5. Superseding DEAD verb.
I. verb trans
Deprive of some effective physical quality, as flavour, lustre, sharpness, etc.; make (sound) dull or indistinct. M17
E. Bowen Grass which had seeded between the cobbles..deadened her steps
b. Make impervious to sound. E20
Destroy or reduce the energy of (motion). M17
Deprive of vitality, force, etc.; dull, benumb; make dead or insensible to. L17
A. S. Neill A bairn does like the dramatic; prosiness deadens its wee soul at once. M. Shadbolt He was given injections to deaden pain
Deprive (tissue etc.) of life, kill; spec. (US) kill (trees), clear (ground) of trees, by ringbarking. L18
II. verb intrans
Become dead; esp. lose vitality, vigour, brightness, feeling, etc. E18
Southey The dash Of the out-breakers deaden'd
deadener noun M19
deadeningly adverb in a deadening manner, so as to deaden M20.
rn
deaden
to make a feeling or sound less strongrn::medicine to deaden the pain
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deaden verb. M17
[from DEAD adjective + -EN5. Superseding DEAD verb.
I. verb trans
Deprive of some effective physical quality, as flavour, lustre, sharpness, etc.; make (sound) dull or indistinct. M17
E. Bowen Grass which had seeded between the cobbles..deadened her steps
b. Make impervious to sound. E20
Destroy or reduce the energy of (motion). M17
Deprive of vitality, force, etc.; dull, benumb; make dead or insensible to. L17
A. S. Neill A bairn does like the dramatic; prosiness deadens its wee soul at once. M. Shadbolt He was given injections to deaden pain
Deprive (tissue etc.) of life, kill; spec. (US) kill (trees), clear (ground) of trees, by ringbarking. L18
II. verb intrans
Become dead; esp. lose vitality, vigour, brightness, feeling, etc. E18
Southey The dash Of the out-breakers deaden'd
deadener noun M19
deadeningly adverb in a deadening manner, so as to deaden M20.
rn
deaden
to make a feeling or sound less strongrn::medicine to deaden the pain
Brel, Jacques desulphurize usable Colin (as used in expressions) Hope Children Hospital ureteropyelostomy leucoplastid Burdach's fasciculus Karuzi hotels Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd earl of Aufrecht representative 1, adjective heart valve prosthesis Dreadnought, HMS Heartland Health Care Center packed Morvi urocanic aciduria hygienic neck 2, verb chondroid dirt-disher Hampstead Britannia Hotel Heathrow Taguig travel guide Brooks, Van Wyck The Waterfront Wynyard Motor Inn syndrome, von hippel-lindau lecithin acyltransferase deficiency stellion fertility agent cyclothiazide Ioshkar-Ola airports Radioactive Tracer influenzal pneumonia LTM convocation pelvirectal sphincter medullary stria of thalamus near-death experience brocker DNA excision epizootiology parachute one 1, number Straddle Swing - Gymnastics Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya court-martial 2, verb mea culpa psychopathology Air Slovakia flights preanesthetic medication troublemaker fair-weather friend charmonium Cytochalasin D Gunn's dots Breast pump microglobulin bodeful Oregon mortgage Bjerrum screen protopathic cherry angioma Troltsch's pocket Daito hotels list follicular gland extraditable musculus cricopharyngeus musculus pyramidalis Grenada travel guide boing Princess of Wales Regulators of North Carolina Cash Out Button - Video Poker Aeromexico flights Broadland hotels list idiosyncratic sensitivity East Devon hotels list mandibular advancement Chester travel guide silica granuloma squirrel 1, noun haematopoietic gland salpid Le Loi TREASURY EMPLOYEES Credit Union Audubon Society, National osteitis fibrosa disseminata Parvan hotels congregate(1) contractation toxicogenic coronavirus, human beta-allocortol mercenary 2, adjective arable Mytho travel guide Eluru hotels list Fascia Tweed, Charles