Verb

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