meaning of deadens

1. 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.
2.
To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ships headway.
3.
To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
4.
To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.
5.
convert metallic mercury into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil


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