Make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation.
To reduce the intensity of a sound.
Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients.
1 The definite pursuit of the higher good will deaden the lower anxieties.
2 Besides, he couldn't bear to deaden his only connection to the outside.
3 A dread seemed to descend upon him and deaden his natural buoyancy.
4 Thick carpets, into which the feet sink, deaden the sound of footsteps.
5 By this common device she had sought to deaden the vivid lightning.
6 It's how they quiet their fears and deaden the pain, he said.
7 There was no other sound to deaden her husband's distinct, low voice.
8 But the point is the same -to deaden people's faith.
9 I started drinking and smoking dope, just to deaden the way I felt.
10 The stream, here and there falling in cataracts, does something to deaden them.
11 I'm not yet in my cups enough to deaden the pain.
12 It was hard to hear her; the shrouded realm seemed to deaden sound.
13 To deaden their fear they ate the sandwiches they had brought.
14 We started then, with our oars muffled to deaden the noise.
15 Certainly these things soothe the restlessness in men's minds, deaden their sceptical sensibilities.
16 He must have something to stimulate him and deaden his nerves.
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