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Dictionary definition for: Deaden
1. (v) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"
2. (v) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant"
3. (v) make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
4. (v) lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship''s headway"
5. (v) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
6. (v) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings" "deaden a sound"
7. (v) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
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