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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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Marcel Proust argued that snobbery is "the greatest sterilizer of inspiration, the greatest deadener of originality, the greatest destroyer of talent." Virginia Woolf wrote, "The essence of snobbery is that you wish to impress other people." H.L.
Beckett, who famously called habit "the great deadener" in an age of tremendous cultural remove from James, appears to answer him directly on this score (Waiting for Godot 82).
Better, argues Jaguar, to recycle the powder back into its vehicles, and a realistic possibility here is to use the powder as a bulk filler for mastics, sealants, sound deadener panels, and so on.
Possible applications include its use as a filler to improve the effectiveness, and reduce the cost, of producing bituminous compounded sound deadener pads.
Other changes include the use of recycled PET plastic, instead of cotton shoddy, underneath the carpet as a sound deadener; thicker door glass; larger air cleaner and resonator, and four engine mounts, one of them liquid filled.