Found 3 items, similar to deaden.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: deaden
menghilangkan, mengurangi, meredamkan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: deaden
deaden
v 1: make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible;
“muffle the message” [syn:
dampen,
damp]
2: cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the
circulation of water and nutrients;
“girdle the plant”
[syn:
girdle]
3: make vapid or deprive of spirit;
“deadened wine”
4: lessen the momentum or velocity of;
“deaden a ship's
headway”
5: become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life,
force, or vigor
6: make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor,
force, activity, or sensation;
“Terror blunted her
feelings”;
“deaden a sound” [syn:
blunt] [ant:
enliven]
7: convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of
minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Deaden
Deaden
\Dead"en\ (d[e^]d"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Deadened
(d[e^]d"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n.
Deadening.] [From
Dead; cf.
AS. d?dan to kill, put to death. See
Dead, a.]
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.
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As harper lays his open palm
Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
--Longfellow.
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2. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to
deaden a ship's headway.
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3. To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
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4. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to
deaden gilding by a coat of size.
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5. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to
deafen.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]