meaning of deadens
1. To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
2. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ships headway.
3. To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
4. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.
5. convert metallic mercury into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
Related Words
deaden | deadened | deadener | deadening | deadeye |
