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Synonyms for deaden

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for deaden

to render less sensitive

to decrease or dull the sound of

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Synonyms for deaden

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

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become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active

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make less lively, intense, or vigorous

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

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Being hit by a car was painful, but at least I had morphine to deaden the pain and knowledgeable experts to guide my recovery.
Furthermore, she holds that the writers' workshops that have spread like kudzu through American elementary schools, promoted by Lucy Calkins of Teachers College, Columbia University, deaden children's creativity.
"Similarly, condoms that deaden sensation will get very few repeat purchases."
"This implies that there is a tendency to 'deaden' the emotional impact of negative events relative to the impact of positive events," the investigators write.
Deaden the ball on contact by "catching" it with the head of the bat.
Hutches and aviaries should be covered with heavy sacking to deaden sound and block out any flashes of light.QOUR four-year-old Westie keeps scratching furiously at the floor whenever a car goes past.
Well meant but simplistic chunks of dialogue among three main characters, representing sensuality (Emily Molnar as a Healer/Physician), spirituality (John Ottmann as a Theologian), and intellectualism (Todd Woffinden as an Astronomer), continually deaden the momentum.
It really does spoil the music altogether unless a good deal of tone control is used to deaden the treble.
Crows keep flying through fitful air but the spaces are empty, nothing fills them anymore Time has lost its hands, trying to keep still Like damp clouds widows deaden the light of the sun
Freud suggested that cocaine might be a pain-relieving agent, but Koller went further and studied its uses as a local anesthetic (one that would deaden pain in a particular area of the body without producing unconsciousness).
Across: 1 Wren; 4 Snide; 7 Meant; 8 Leave; 9 Rites; 10 Tumbledown; 14 Deaden; 16 Threat; 17 Refuse dump; 22 Prime; 23 Sedan; 25 Naive; 26 Taint; 27 Left.
The vinyl foam construction is hard wearing and will also deaden sound.
San Francisco designer Steve Osburn's answer was a suite of coordinated storage units of 3/4-inch maple plywood (including a generous desktop of maple-trimmed plastic laminate), fabric-wrapped fiberboard on the walls (to deaden sound and hide pushpin holes), and a custom bed.
Stiktamers[TM] ($19.99), made from a hybrid foam rubber, deaden the string slap and limb vibration of your recurve bow.
They reach for expressions to intensify their meaning; but such outbursts merely deaden any intended effect.