- dampen, deaden, damp - make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"
--1 is one way to dampen, damp, soften, weaken, break
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- girdle, deaden - cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant"
--2 is one way to incise
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- deaden - make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
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- deaden - lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
--4 is one way to retard
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- deaden - become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
--5 is one way to change
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun deadening1
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- deaden, blunt - make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
--6 is one way to change, alter, modify
Antonyms: enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun deadening1
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- deaden - convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
--7 is one way to convert
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Somebody ----s something
- deaden - lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"