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deaden

English

🔊 convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
🔊 make less lively, intense, or vigorous
“Terror blunted her feelings”
🔊 become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active
🔊 lessen the momentum or velocity of
“deaden a ship's headway”
🔊 make vapid or deprive of spirit
“deadened wine”
🔊 make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
“muffle the message”
🔊 cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
“girdle the plant”