deaden
deaden is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. 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.
- adjective. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.
- adjective. To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
- adjective. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.
- verb. convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
- verb. make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
"Terror blunted her feelings"
"deaden a sound"
- verb. become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
- verb. make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
"muffle the message"
- verb. lessen the momentum or velocity of
"deaden a ship's headway"
- verb. make vapid or deprive of spirit
"deadened wine"
- verb. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
"girdle the plant"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in deaden:
Common word forms
deadens, deadened, deadener, deadening
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