Antonym: stimulate. Similar words: dead end, make a dent in, dead, deadly, fade away, deadline, deadlock, call a spade a spade. Meaning: ['dedn] 
v. 1. make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible 2. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients 3. make vapid or deprive of spirit 4. lessen the momentum or velocity of 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 7. convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil.
v. 1. make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible 2. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients 3. make vapid or deprive of spirit 4. lessen the momentum or velocity of 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 7. convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil. 
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31. Thick walls deaden noise.
32. I drink camomile tea to calm me down and I find a few glasses of wine on a night out can help to deaden the urges a bit.
33. In 1530 it meant to paralyze, deaden, stupefy, to stun or deprive of sensation, as by a blow.
34. They, therefore, endeavour that consistently, to deaden the class struggle and to reconcile the class antagonisms.
35. I think you need a shoot to deaden the pain first.
More similar words: dead end, make a dent in, dead, deadly, fade away, deadline, deadlock, call a spade a spade, aden, dead letter, reader, leader, beaded, laden, pleaded, dreaded, spreader, cadence, adenoma, pigheaded, sudden death, turn a deaf ear to, mind reader, bullheaded, leadership, cadenced, decadent, floor leader, proofreader, decadence.