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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1. He was given drugs to deaden the pain.
2. Too many rules might deaden creativity.
3. Thick walls deaden the noise from the street.
4. Wood is used to deaden the noise.
5. We can deaden the noise of the room with thick walls.
6. He needs morphine to deaden the pain in his chest.
7. Morphine is often used to deaden the pain of serious injuries.
8. Double glazing has helped to deaden the noise from the motorway.
9. He drank alcohol to deaden the pain.
10. Laughter here might anaesthetize our feelings, deaden us to the moral issue.
11. Alcohol serves to deaden feelings which the individual can not manage, or wishes to avoid.
12. Two of these pills will deaden the ache.
13. This drug deaden the pain.
14. To deaden, as to feelings or moral scruples; callous.
15. Her feet were deaden with cold.
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16. The tender committee have not set bidding deaden yet.
17. This drug will deaden the pain.
18. Terror blunted her feelings; deaden a sound.
19. So little was needed to deaden her.
20. They managed to deaden the sound on TV every time the alleged victim's name was spoken.
21. I think you need a shot to deaden the pain first.
22. I'll give you a shot to deaden the pain first.
23. Soundposts are an important feature of bowed instruments but are unsuitable for plucked instruments and will deaden the sound of a dulcimer.
24. If he couldn't lose the feeling, perhaps he could deaden it.
25. The planter rested on thick beige carpeting that helped deaden the bone-shaking noise of aircraft launching and recovery operations.
26. Before that time, alcohol had been in general use to deaden pain, though some sturdy souls rejected it on principle.
27. Science can kill as well as create; technology can deaden the human spirit or lift it to the farthermost corners of our imaginations.
28. I had shut my eyes, I confused myself on purpose to deaden the pain.
29. Emma Goldman: I think voting is the opium of the masses in this country. Every four years you deaden the pain.
30. A terrified old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry.
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