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Definition of Deadened

Deadened
Deaden Dead"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deadened; p. pr. & vb. n. Deadening.] [From Dead; cf. AS. d?dan to kill, put to death. See Dead, a.] 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.
Deaden
Deaden Dead"en, v. t. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen.
Deaden
Deaden Dead"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deadened; p. pr. & vb. n. Deadening.] [From Dead; cf. AS. d?dan to kill, put to death. See Dead, a.] 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.

Meaning of Deadened from wikipedia

- hearing Lenny mention he had a small part in the horror movie The Re-Deadening, Homer takes the kids to see the movie, leaving Bart and Lisa scared....
- emitted by the exhaust of an internal combustion engine—especially a noise-deadening device forming part of the exhaust system of an automobile. Mufflers are...
- natural resonance frequencies; as a result, sheet-lead is used as a sound deadening layer in the walls, floors, and ceilings of sound studios. Organ pipes...
- 1807, William Wordsworth finished his sonnet on the theme of a modernity deadened to Nature, which opens "The world is too much with us", with a sense of...
- its presence in ambient air at concentration over 100–150 ppm quickly deadens the sense of smell, and a victim may breathe increasing quantities without...
- bezels around the speedo and tach. The GT-A also had additional sound deadening and privacy gl**** installed from the factory and the engine manifold and...
- thought to have originated from hard wearing in the field, or as a means of deadening a sword blow and perhaps entangling the attacker's weapon. The spread...
- with a single pedal, an approach which "accents the second note... [and] deadens the drumhead's resonance", which gives a short, muffled b**** drum sound...
- models had an updated grille, bumper, side mirrors and increased sound deadening. The third generation high-performance WRX variants continued in production...
- writing, "[The Wachowskis] computer-generated imagery goes from dazzling to deadening in action scenes that favor heavy, clanking weaponry over the martial-arts...