Deaden

[v] convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
[v] make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
[v] become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
[v] make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"
[v] lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
[v] make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
[v] cut a girdle around (a plant) so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients

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Synonyms

blunt, girdle

Antonyms

animate, enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up

Related Terms

abate, absorb the shock, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, baffle, bank the fire, bedaze, benumb, besot, blunt, break the fall, chasten, chloroform, coldcock, constrain, control, cramp, cripple, cushion, damp, dampen, d