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BENUMB |
Deaden |
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DAMPEN |
Deaden (enthusiasm) |
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MUTE |
Deaden (sound) |
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MUFFLE |
Deaden sound |
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DEADENED |
Of Deaden |
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DEADENING |
Of Deaden |
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IMPALSY |
To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden. |
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MULL |
To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt. |
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DEADEN |
To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine. |
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BUFFET |
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper. |
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DEAD |
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or
vigor. |
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MORTIFY |
To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden
desires by religious discipline. |
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FOSSILIZE |
To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by
fossilization; to mummify; to deaden. |
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STUN |
To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome;
especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing. |
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STIFLE |
To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to
stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame. |
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NUMB |
To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or
motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy. |
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OBTUND |
To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to
dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the
gall. |
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DAMP |
To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to
cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to
weaken; to discourage. |
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PUGGING |
Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the
boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the
United States usually called deafening. |
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DAMPER |
...air. (b) A contrivance, as in a
pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism,
to check some action at a particular time... |