MEANING
1. To reduce feeling, sensitivity, or responsiveness.
2. To lessen sound, vibration, or resonance.
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Words that belong together
- deaden sensation
- deaden pain
On the page
The cold deadened sensation in her fingers before she reached the latch.
Years of rehearsing the account had deadened his response to its cruelest detail.
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Word forms
- Base
- deaden
- Past tense
- deadened
- Past participle
- deadened
- Present participle
- deadening
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- deaden
- Present continuous
- am/is/are deadening
- Present perfect
- have/has deadened
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been deadening
- Past
- deadened
- Past continuous
- was/were deadening
- Past perfect
- had deadened
- Past perfect continuous
- had been deadening
- Future
- will deaden
- Future continuous
- will be deadening
- Future perfect
- will have deadened
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been deadening
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: deaden; deadens; deadened; deadened; deadening Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: deadens.
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