Crossword clues for deadened
deadened
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
--Longfellow. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.
To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.
To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: deaden)
WordNet
adj. devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities" [syn: dead]
made or become less intense; "the deadened pangs of hunger"
Usage examples of "deadened".
That deadened the shouting, but it didn't prevent others from seeing the pantomime the two were throwing at one another.
She deadened the outer fringe of her perceptions to everything, curled forward in her chair.
But cerebral and retinal scanning were painless, and one never felt the acupuncture that deadened the leg for the blood, bone marrow, and tissue samples.
Diet alone would not account for the dullness of their hide and their deadened attunement.
At least the numbweed deadened the muscular aches enough for him to make his own way across the court and up to three flights to the drumheights.
Despite her own distress (numbweed deadened any pain), Zaranth kept assuring Golanth that F'lessan was alive, that his rider was only deeply asleep from pain and the exhaustion of their fight.
So deadened were they to all sense of kinship with the world that I could scarcely sense them at all.
Skilled deep inside him, beyond where the herbs and smoke deadened him, I was scorched with the agony.
As the herb deadened the pain in my mouth, I could chew at my sleeve more strongly.
But he had flooded his path with some sickening liquid which had deadened my very important sense of smell.
I made him ever turn and twist and in the end that was my advantage, since his fatigue deadened his limbs with chain weights.
Under his breath, he began murmuring an incantation, a weaving of ancient words that deadened sound, that squeezed lassitude into the victims, dulling their every sense.
The rope bit into his wrists, and the loss of circulation stung his hands, deadened his fingers.
Mara endured with deadened eyes as the priest of Turakamu employed an ornate scoop to fill the waiting urn with ashes.
They deadened brain and personality so completely that the thing left had even to be ordered to eat, to carry out the other processes necessary to keep the body alive and serviceable to the master.