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. [1913 Webster] As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 2. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway. [1913 Webster] 3. To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine. [1913 Webster] 4. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size. [1913 Webster] 5. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]