to deaden
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6.1
- verb
- /ˈdɛdən/
:
amortiguar
- The place is lit with those totally draining, deadening fluorescent lights.
- deadens the sound
Examples
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Events repeated themselves with a deadening familiarity.
Fiction book (1992) -
I do so love the fog... for me, it is a comforting, enveloping blanket that deadens, quiets, softens, and muffles the ugliness and harshness around us.
Blog text (22) -
Snow and wind deadened his voice.
Fiction book (1996) -
American society was the very picture of deadening conformity.
Academic text (2003) -
From that quarter, however, rang only a deadening silence.
Fiction book (2001) -
The feeble afternoon sunlight that slanted through the window seemed deadened by the looming blackboards.
Fiction book (1995) -
The heavy curtains deaden the noise from the busy street outside.
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He wore earplugs to deaden the sound of the loud music at the party.
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The thick walls of the building helped to deaden the echo in the hallway.
Synonyms
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1.2
To slowly become less visible, bright, or loud
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5.8
To make a sound or feeling quieter so it is less noticeable
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3.6
To make something hard to see or understand
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3.7
To make something less strong, for example a sound, color or feeling
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3.5
To make a sound so loud that you cannot hear another sound
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4.8
To make a sound or feeling less strong
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4.4
Make something less strong or noticeable, for example sound and feeling
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5.4
To make something darker by blocking light
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7.9
To make something weaker, like sound or light
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5.2
To make something hard to see or understand
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9.5
To make something dark or hard to see
To make the edges of things look dim or blurred
To make something, like light and memory, less bright or clear
To make something hard to see or understand
Make something unclear or hard to understand
To make the outline or image faint and hard to see
Antonyms
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deaden comes from dead + -en, so it originally means 'make dead' or 'make less lively'. That idea helps explain the sound and sight uses: to deaden noise or shapes is to make them quiet, soft, or 'less distinct'.