Word Meanings - DEADEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 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. As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its

Additional info about word: DEADEN

Etym: 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. As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. Longfellow. 2. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEADEN)

• Kill
• Slay
• murder
• assassinate
• destroy
• slaughter
• butcher
• immolate
• massacre
• deaden
• put to death
• despatch
• Mortify
• Deaden
• subdue
• master
• vex
• disappoint
• annoy
• rot
• fester
• humble
• abash
• chagrin
• displace
• putrefy
• Paralyze
• benumb
• prostrate
• enervate
• debilitate
• enfeeble

Related words: (words related to DEADEN)

• IMMOLATE
  To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. Worshipers, who not only immolate to them the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle. (more info) orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal; pref.
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• BUTCHERING
  1. The business of a butcher. 2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.
• FESTERMENT
  A festering. Chalmers.
• BUTCHER'S BROOM
  A genus of plants ; esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• PARALYZE
  1. To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy. 2. Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.
• BENUMBED
  Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.
• ABASHMENT
  The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.
• PROSTRATE
  Trailing on the ground; procumbent. (more info) prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot.
• BUTCHERLY
  Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• HUMBLE
  humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley. 2. Thinking
• ENFEEBLER
  One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
• PUTREFY
  rotten + -ficare to make; cf. L. putrefacere. See Putrid, 1. To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot. 2. To corrupt; to make foul. Private suits do putrefy the public good. Bacon. They would
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• CALABASH
  Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + 1. The common gourd . 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. 3. A water dipper, bottle, backet, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. Calabash tree.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• SQUABASH
  To crush; to quash; to squash. Sir W. Scott.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.
• TASKMASTER
  One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.