Deaden

Definitions: Deaden

Deaden

Verb

1. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.

2. Cut a girdle around (a plant) so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients.

3. Make vapid or deprive of spirit: "deadened wine".

4. Lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway".

5. Become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor.

6. Make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound".

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

Date "deaden" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references)

Synonyms: Deaden

Synonyms: blunt (v), damp (v), dampen (v), girdle (v), muffle (v), mute (v), tone down (v). (additional references)

Antonym: enliven (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impotence	Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.
Insensibility	Render insensible, render callous; blunt, obtund, numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate, stun, stupefy; brutify; brutalize; chloroform, anaesthetize, put under; assify.
Moderation	Tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; (restrain); tame; (subjugate); smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Deaden

English words defined with "deaden": damp, dampen, Driving spring, dull ♦ Impalsy ♦ muffle, mute ♦ pudendal block, Pugging ♦ silencer, Sound boarding ♦ tone down. (references)

Specialty definitions using "deaden": PIPE COVERER AND INSULATOR. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Every four years you deaden the pain. (Reds; writing credit: Warren Beatty; Trevor Griffiths)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	They, therefore, endeavour, and that consistently, to deaden the class struggle and to reconcile the class antagonisms. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It was absolutely necessary to deaden the blows.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Deaden" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Deaden" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	83.33%	15	90,616
Lexical Verb (base form)	16.67%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

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Language		Translations for "deaden"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		afskryf (amortize, write, write off). (various references)

Albanian		humb gaz, humb energji, bëhem i pandjenshëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏هدى (give away, guide, inscribe, present, right path, right way, true religion), ‏خفف (alleviate, attemper, attenuate, ease off, extenuate, gloss over the facts, lessen, mitigate, modify, muffle, palliate, qualify, relax, relent, relieve, remit, slack, slake, slim, solace, subdue, succor, succour, thin, water down), ‏خدر (anaesthesia, anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthesia, anesthetize, benumb, creep, drug, look out, narcotize, numb, numbness, opiate, stupefaction, stupefy, stupor, torpid, torpor), ‏أمات (crucify, kill). (various references)

Bulgarian		карам нещо да потъмнее, карам нещо да повехне, заглушавам (black out, deafen, drown, dull, intercept, jam, jam out, kill, obstruct, overgrow, silence), лишавам от жизненост, правя звуконепроницаем (deafen). (various references)

Chinese		抹杀 (Deadened, Deadening). (various references)

Czech		ztlumit (cushion, damp down, dim, dip, hush, soften, tone down, turn down), zmírnit (allay, alleviate, break, cushion, defuse, dilute, ease, extenuate, loosen, mitigate, palliate, relieve, remit, slacken, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, temper, tone down, understate), umrtvit (mortify), otupit (blunt, stupefy). (various references)

Dutch		aflossen (amortize, pay off, redeem, take the place of), afbetalen (amortize, pay off, pay on account, to pay by instalments, to pay off). (various references)

Esperanto		amortizi (amortize). (various references)

Farsi		خرف کردن (Stultify, Stupefy), بی حس وبی روح کردن , بی جان شدن . (various references)

Finnish		kuolettaa. (various references)

French		engourdir, calmer, anesthésier, amortir, étouffer (deafen). (various references)

Frisian		ôfskriuwe (amortize, write off), ôflosse (amortize, pay off, redeem). (various references)

German		abstumpfen (become dulled, blunt, blunting, dull, dulling). (various references)

Greek		νεκρώνω, νεκρώ (mortify), απονεκρώνω (devitalize, mortify, numb). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"ק�"ות (blunt, dull), ל�"חליש (abate, attenuate, detach, enervate, enfeeble, impair, slacken, weaken, wear down). (various references)

Hungarian		tompít (blunt, buffer, to blunt, to damp, to dampen, to deaden, to deafen, to dull, to flat, to mellow, to smooth, to soften, to stifle, to turn down, to vignette), csökken (dwindle, lessen, let up, to abate, to attenuate, to be down, to deaden, to decrease, to drop, to dwindle, to ease down, to ease up, to extenuate, to fall off, to let up, to lower, to recede, to reduce, to remit, to sag, to slacken, to wane). (various references)

Indonesian		meredamkan (muffle), mengurangi (abridge, attenuate, curtail, deduct, detract, diminish, relieve, substract), menghilangkan (allay, delete, fade, omit). (various references)

Italian		ammortizzare (amortise, amortize, dampen, depreciate). (various references)

Manx		kyrloghey (anaesthetization, anaesthetize, anaesthetize locally, benumb, benumbing, numb, paralyse, stun). (various references)

Pig Latin		eadenday.(various references)

Portuguese		insensibilizar, amortecer (absorb, amortize, benumb, blunt, break, cushion, damp, dampen, fade, muffle, rebate, weaken), abrandar (appease, attemper, calm down, decelerate, dilute, diminish, ease, extenuate, fall, flatter, mellowness, mitigate, moderate, modify, mutate, pass off, quiet, reduce, relax, relent, relieve, season, slacken, slake, soften, soothe, to slacken, unbend, unbrace, voice). (various references)

Romanian		micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), lipsi de viaţã, amortiza (absorb, amortize, break, cushion, damp, extinguish, liquidate, pay off, redeem), înãbuşi (blanket, bring under, choke, control, deafen, drown, hush, keep down, kill, mortify, muffle, quash, quell, quench, restrain, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Russian		заглушать (damp, deafen, drown, muffle, silences, silencing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		umrtviti (benumb, impoverish), otupeti (grow numb, hebetate, pall, pall on), omlitaviti, izgubiti snagu. (various references)

Spanish		amortizar (amortise, amortize, pay off, redeem), amortiguar (absorb, attanuate, attenuate, bedim, blanket, break, cushion, extenuate, leak, muffle, mute, silence, soften, to snub). (various references)

Swedish		dämpa (abate, attenuate, Bate, chasten, cushion, damp, dampen, dim, dull, kill, moderate, muffle, mute, quell, quench, subdue, supress, temper, tone down). (various references)

Turkish		duygusuzlaştırmak (harden, indurate, numb), donuklaştırmak (bedim, dim, dull, fog, scumble), matlaştırmak (flatten, tarnish), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), katılaştırmak (concrete, fixate, harden, indurate, ossify, sear, sinter, solidify, stiffen, toughen), hafifletmek (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attenuate, commute, de-escalate, ease, emasculate, extenuate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modify, palliate, qualify, relieve, remit, soft pedal, subdue, water, weaken), azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, Bate, cut back, cut down on, decrease, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off). (various references)

Ukranian		умертвляти (crucify, dead), убивати (finish off, homicide, kill, murder, pick off, put to death, slay, thug), ослабляти (abate, allay, attenuate, debilitate, depress, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, impair, infirm, let down, loosen, lower, overcome, relax, slack, slacken, subdue, unbind, water, weaken), притупляти (benumb, damp, dull, narcotize, opiate, quench, rebate, rust). (various references)

Welsh		marwhau (mortify), marweiddio (mortify). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	abalienabantur, abalienabit, abalienarentur, abalienati, abalienavit. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	John Chapter 5, Verse 25
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Amhn amhn legw umin oti ercetai wra kai nun estin ote oi nekroi akousontai thV fwnhV tou uiou tou qeou kai oi akousanteV zhsontai
Latin	405	Vulgate	Amen amen dico vobis quia venit hora et nunc est quando mortui audient vocem Filii Dei et qui audierint vivent
Old English	990	West Saxon	Soð ic segge eow. þæt seo tyd cymð & nu is; þonne ða deaden ge-hereð godessunes stefne; & þa libbæð þe hyo ge-hered;
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Treuli, treuli Y seie to you, for the our cometh, and now it is, whanne deed men schulen here the vois of `Goddis sone, and thei that heren, schulen lyue.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Verely verely I saye vnto you: the tyme shall come and now is when the deed shall heare the voyce of the sonne of God. And they yt heare shall live.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Verily, verily, I say to you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	John Chapter 5, Verse 25
Bulgarian	Защото, както Отец има живот в Себе Си, също така е дал и на Сина да има живот в Себе Си;
Cebuano	"Sa pagkatinuod, sa pagkatinuod, magaingon ako kaninyo, nga ang takna nagasingabut, ug karon mao na, nga ang mga patay managpakabati sa tingog sa Anak sa Dios, ug kadtong magapatalinghug mabuhi.
Chinese	我實實在在的告訴 � 們、時候將到、現在就是了、死人要聽見　神 �' 子的聲音．聽見的人就要活了。
Croatian	Zaista, zaista, kažem vam: dolazi èas - sada je! - kad æe mrtvi èuti glas Sina Božjega i koji èuju, živjet æe.
Danish	Sandelig, sandelig, siger jeg eder, den Time kommer, ja den er nu, da de døde skulle høre Guds Søns Røst, og de, som høre den, skulle leve.
Dutch	Voorwaar, voorwaar zeg Ik u: De ure komt, en is nu, wanneer de doden zullen horen de stem des Zoons Gods, en die ze gehoord hebben, zullen leven.
Finnish	Totisesti, totisesti minä sanon teille: aika tulee ja on jo, jolloin kuolleet kuulevat Jumalan Pojan äänen, ja jotka sen kuulevat ne saavat elää.
French	En vérité, en vérité, je vous le dis, l`heure vient, et elle est déj� venue, où les morts entendront la voix du Fils de Dieu; et ceux qui l`auront entendue vivront.
German	Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch: Es kommt die Stunde und ist schon jetzt, daß die Toten werden die Stimme des Sohnes Gottes hören; und die sie hören werden, die werden leben.
Haitian Creole	Sa m'ap di nou la a, se vre wi: Lè a ap rive, li rive deja: moun mouri yo pral tande vwa Pitit Bondye a. Tout moun mouri ki va tande vwa sa a pral gen lavi.
Hungarian	Bizony, bizony mondom néktek, hogy eljõ az idõ, és az most vagyon, mikor a halottak hallják az Isten Fiának szavát, és a kik hallják, élnek.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Percayalah: Akan datang waktunya--malah sudah sampai waktunya--orang mati akan mendengar suara Anak Allah. Dan orang yang mendengarnya akan hidup.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Sesungguh-sungguhnya Aku berkata kepadamu, bahwa ketikanya akan datang dan sekarang ini ada juga, bahwa segala orang mati akan mendengar suara Anak Allah dan orang yang mendengar itu akan hidup.
Italian	In verit� , in verit� vi dico: è venuto il momento, ed è questo, in cui i morti udranno la voce del Figlio di Dio, e quelli che l'avranno ascoltata, vivranno.
Korean	진 실 로 진 실 로 너 희 에 게 이 르 노 니 죽 은 자 �"� 이 하 나 님 의 아 �"� 의 음 성 을 �"� 을 때 가 오 나 니 곧 이 때 라 �"� �" 자 �" 살 아 나 리 라
Latvian	Patiesi, patiesi es jums saku, ka nâk stunda, un tâ tagad ir, kad miroòi dzirdçs Dieva Dçla balsi, un tie, kas dzirdçs, dzîvos.
Maori	He pono, he pono taku e mea nei ki a koutou, Meake puta te wa, a tenei ano inaianei, e rongo ai nga tupapaku i te reo o ta te Atua Tama; a ko te hunga e rongo ana ka ora.
Modern Greek	Αληθως, αληθως σας λεγω οτι ερχεται ωρα, και ηδη ειναι, οτε οι νεκροι θελουσιν ακουσει την φωνην του Υιου του Θεου, και οι ακουσαντες θελουσι ζησει.
Norwegian	Sannelig, sannelig sier jeg eder: Den time kommer, og er nu, da de døde skal høre Guds Sønns røst, og de som hører, skal leve.
Portuguese	Em verdade, em verdade vos digo que vem a hora, e agora é, em que os mortos ouvirão a voz do Filho de Deus, e os que a ouvirem viverão.
Rumanian	Adevqrat, adevqrat vq spun, cq vine ceasul, wi acum a wi venit, cknd cei moryi vor auzi glasul Fiului lui Dumnezeu, wi ceice -l vor asculta, vor knvia.
Russian	йУФЙООП, ЙУФЙООП ЗПЧПТА ЧБН: ОБУФХ� БЕФ ЧТЕНС, Й ОБУФБМП ХЦЕ, ЛПЗ�"Б НЕТФЧЩЕ ХУМЩЫБФ ЗМБУ уЩОБ вПЦЙС Й, ХУМЩЫБЧ, ПЦЙЧХФ.
Shuar	Ti nekasaiti. Tsawant winittiana nu jeayi. Nu tsawant jaka ainia nu Wi untsumman antukar umirkarka iwiaaku ajasartatui.
Spanish	De cierto, de cierto os digo que viene la hora y ahora es, cuando los muertos oirán la voz del Hijo de Dios, y los que oyen vivirán.
Swahili	Kweli nawaambieni, wakati unakuja, tena umekwisha fika, ambapo wafu wataisikia sauti ya Mwana wa Mungu, nao watakaoisikia, wataishi.
Swedish	Sannerligen säger jag eder: Den stund kommer, jag, den är redan inne, så de döda skola höra Guds Sons röst, och de som höra den skola bliva levande.
Thai	เราบอกความจริงแก่ท่านทั้งหลายว่า เวลาที่กำหน�"นั้นใกล้จะถึงแล้ว และบั�"นี้ก็ถึงแล้ว คือเมื่อผู้ที่ตายแล้วจะไ�"้ยินพระสุรเสียงแห่งพระบุตรของพระเจ้า และบรร�"าผู้ที่ไ�"้ยินจะมีชีวิต
Ukrainian	Поправді, поправді кажу вам: Наступа�" година, і тепер уже �", коли голос Божого Сина почують померлі, а ті, що почують, оживуть.
Uma	Makono mpu'u lolita-ku toi: Rata mpai' tempo-na-- pai' toi-mi tempo-na-- tauna tomate mpo'epe libu' Ana' Alata'ala, pai' hira' to mpo'epe mporata katuwua' to bo'u.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "deaden": deadened, deadener, deadeners, deadening, deadeningly, deadenings, deadens. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Deaden" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beaden, daddin, daden, D'adone, daidan, Dalden, deada, deade, deadend, deadle, deadmen, dealen, Deanein, deaven, dee-dah, deede, Deedee, defade, Dehaen, Dehaven, deinen, Delarden, delden, denden, Depden, derden, desden, Dewdney, diade, Diagen, dioden, Diodon, Duerden, Dujardin, Eaden, readen, Seaden, Tjaden. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "deaden" (pronounced de"dun)
4	-e" d u n	leaden, redden.
3	-d u n	abandon, bedridden, beholden, broaden, burden, cordon, downtrodden, embolden, forbidden, garden, gladden, golden, harden, hidden, Holden, Jordan, laden, Linden, Loden, Louden, madden, maiden, menhaden, Myrmidon, olden, overburden, overridden, pardon, prekindergarten, prostaglandin, ridden, sadden, sodden, Soldan, sudden, tendon, unburden, warden, widen, wooden.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: deaned.
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-n"
	-1 letter: ended.
	-2 letters: dead, dean, deed, dene, need.
	-3 letters: add, and, ane, dad, dee, den, end, nae, nee.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, an, de, ed, en, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-n"
	+1 letter: amended, davened, deadens, kneaded, ladened.
	+2 letters: adherend, appended, ascended, attended, bedamned, bemadden, bendayed, cadenced, credenda, damneder, dampened, dandered, danegeld, daneweed, dangered, darkened, darneder, deaconed, deadened, deadener, deadline, deadness, deafened, decadent, decanted, defanged, demanded, demander, demeaned, dentated, denudate, deplaned, deranged, desanded, detained, endeared, expanded, gandered, gardened, hardened, maddened, pandered, redemand, remanded, saddened, unevaded, unideaed, unleaded, wandered.
	+3 letters: adherends, anteceded, antedated, bartended, bemaddens, broadened, damnedest, danegelds, daneweeds, darnedest, datedness, datelined, daundered, dazedness, deadeners, deadening, deadlines, decadence, decadency, decadents, defendant, deleading, demanders, denatured, denudated, denudates, depainted, dependant, deraigned, descanted, destained, detonated, detrained, emendated, endamaged, enfiladed, gladdened, glandered, handseled, headlined, jadedness, laundered, maundered, meandered, nonleaded, pinheaded, readorned, redemands, rehandled, reinvaded, renegaded, serenaded, slandered, unamended, undreamed, verandaed.
	+4 letters: adventured, bandleader, barehanded, bedarkened, bedeafened, bemaddened, boneheaded, calendared, calendered, chandelled, coattended, damascened, damnedests, deadenings, deadliness, deadnesses, deadpanned, deadpanner, deaminated, decadences, decadently, decahedron, defendable, defendants, definienda, delineated, demandable, denazified, denervated, denigrated, dependable, dependably, dependance, dependants, descendant, designated, disengaged, dunderhead, endangered, endeavored, endodermal, evenhanded, fecundated, forehanded, freehanded, handedness, handselled, headhunted, lavendered, longheaded, lunkheaded, maidenhead, openhanded, overhanded, promenaded, reascended, redemanded, rehardened, reordained, squandered, unattended, undecadent, undeclared, undefeated, underacted, underrated, undertaxed, uneducated, unheralded, unmediated, unrewarded, unsteadied, unthreaded, verandahed, woodenhead.
	+5 letters: adaptedness, adrenalized, apprehended, bandleaders, beardedness, bemaddening, cleanhanded, codefendant, datednesses, dazednesses, deadeningly, deadheading, deadpanners, decadencies, decahedrons, degenerated, dehumanized, delaminated, denominated, dependances, depredating, depredation, deracinated, desalinated, desalinized, descendants, disentailed, downhearted, dunderheads, dundrearies, endeavoured, engarlanded, guardedness, hendiadyses, incandesced, intergraded, interlarded, jadednesses, kindhearted, maidenheads, overhandled, philandered, preordained, redemanding, remaindered, reprimanded, roundheaded, sandpapered, thunderhead, transcended, unaddressed, undecidable, undecorated, undedicated, undelegated, underhanded, underlapped, undermanned, underplayed, understated, undervalued, unlaundered, unmedicated, unpersuaded, woodenheads, wrongheaded.
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