Definitions for deadened

(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")

(make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine")

(lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway")

(become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor)

(make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound")

(convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil)

(devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities")

(made or become less intense; "the deadened pangs of hunger")