deaden
pronunciation
How to pronounce deaden in British English:
UK [ˈdedn]
How to pronounce deaden in American English:
US [ˈdɛdn]
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- Verb:
- make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
- cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
- 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
- convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
Word Origin
- deaden (v.)
- 1660s "deprive of or diminish (some quality)," from dead (adj.) + -en (1). Earlier the verb was simply dead. Related: Deadened; deadening.
Antonym
Example
- 1. To dull or deaden as if with a narcotic drug .
- 2. The I m a deaden look .
- 3. Drugs deaden the pangs of hunger .
- 4. To deaden one 's awareness of ; blot out .
- 5. Too many rules might deaden creativity .