"Deaden" is a word in ENGLISH
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 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.
To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to
deaden gilding by a coat of size.
As a mother you have thoughts. You get interrupted. You forget.You are distracted. Your thoughts and ideas become fragmented,diluted, or simply evaporate. You must have faith that you willagain have a thought. Creativity is the string uponwhich you hang the pearls of your identity,your authentic presence.—Suzi Banks Baum
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Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind.
Read the complete definitionHaving the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.
Read the complete definitionAn elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the …
Read the complete definitionTo deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
Read the complete definitionAnything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.
Read the complete definitionTo put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or …
Read the complete definitionTo become damp; to deaden.
Read the complete definitionThat which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a …
Read the complete definitionTo make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.
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Read the complete definitionOne who, or that which, deadens or checks.
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Read the complete definitionObscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
Read the complete definitionThat portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens …
Read the complete definitionTo cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden.
Read the complete definitionTo palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.
Read the complete definitionTo practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.
Read the complete definitionTo deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; …
Read the complete definitionTo wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or …
Read the complete definitionTo dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt.
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