DEADEN
- to diminish the sensitivity or vigor of [v DEADENED, DEADENING, DEADENS] : DEADENINGLY [adv]
- to make impervious to sound, as a floor
- to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible; weaken
- to lessen the velocity of; retard
- to deprive of feeling [v -ED, -ING, -S]
- to become dead