deaden (Also deadening, deadens, deadenings, deadened) : Related Words Words similar in meaning to deaden

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overturn, shoal, bugle, lace, gassing, plaster, hide, wilt, cracking, reverse, thinning, roll up, roll, bootleg, add, gag, crush, ascend, introvert, dim, reinstate, fold up, fold, mold, change integrity, bubble, prostrate, easing, divide, change posture, fix, reticulate, trim down, trim back, trim, activated, submerged, barb, pull up stakes, calm down, merge, impact, veil, clot, hop up, hop, hue, poison, concentrate, accommodate, commute, catch on, catch, loose, dope, damage, pall, extend, muddy, digest, refining, prim, spike, fat, correct, assume, mat up, mat, go bad, occult, raise, void, let up, stuffing, cool off, cool down, cool, flux, mix, specialize, swing, blind, worry, mature, disorder, limit, compost, slow down, cream, unfit, sober, bring down, bring, scrub, heat up, heat, legitimate, duplex, rue, capture, sauce, pass, brush, shallow, expand, adopt, break into, dismiss, arrange, shade, deck, spice up, spice, glass over, glass, shrinking, depart, womanize, westernise, vulgarize, vulgarise, vulcanize, vulcanise, vivify, vitrify, vitalise, virilize, virilise, vesiculate, verbify, verbalise, vascularize, vascularise, variegate, vaporise, urbanise, untune, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise, unsex, unsanctify, uniformize, uniformise, unclutter, ulcerate, uglify, transubstantiate, transitivize, transitivise, transfigure, territorialize, territorialise, tenderise, syncopate, symmetrize, symmetrise, superannuate, suburbanize, suburbanise, subtilize, strangulate, sporulate, spiritualize, solemnise, solarize, solarise, slenderize, slenderise, sexualize, sexualise, sentimentalise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise, schematize, schematise, salinate, rusticate, romanticise, resorb, renormalize, renormalise, refreshen, re-afforest, rasterize, rarify, ramify, preisolate, plasticize, plasticise, pasteurise, paganize, paganise, ozonize, ozonise, oxygenize, oxygenise, overcloud, outmode, ossify, orientalize, orientalise, opsonize, opalize, opalise, opacify, officialize, officialise, occidentalize, occidentalise, obsolesce, obnubilate, novelize, novelise, nitrify, nazify, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise, mineralize, militarise, meliorate, melanize, melanise, mechanise, matt-up, masculinize, masculinise, magnetise, liquidize, liquidise, lignify, lifehack, laicize, laicise, keratinize, keratinise, ionise, ionate, iodinate, introject, intransitivize, intransitivise, inspissate, indurate, individualise, indispose, incandesce, immortalise, immix, immaterialize, immaterialise, hydrogenate, humify, harshen, gradate, glamourize, glamourise, glamorise, gelatinize, gelatinise, fossilise, foreshorten, flocculate, fictionalise, feudalize, feminise, fecundate, externalise, exteriorize, exteriorise, etherialise, etherealize, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise, eroticize, envenom, enfeebling, embrittle, emaciate, effeminize, effeminise, dynamize, dynamise, domesticize, domesticise, dissonate, dissimilate, disharmonize, disenable, discolour, disaffect, dilapidate, digitalise, diazotize, diabolize, diabolise, devilize, devilise, detransitivize, detransitivise, destress, desensitise, desalt, desalinize, desalinise, deprave, depolarise, depersonalise, deodourise, deodorise, denaturalize, denaturalise, denationalize, denationalise, demythologize, demythologise, demulsify, demist, demagnetize, demagnetise, dehydrogenate, degauss, defog, defervesce, decrepitate, deconcentrate, decimalize, decimalise, decalcify, deaminize, deaminate, de-emphasise, cutinize, creolize, counterchange, conventionalize, conventionalise, constitutionalize, constitutionalise, concretise, complexify, communize, communise, commix, colourize, colourise, colorise, collimate, coarsen, classicize, classicise, civilise, circularize, chemisorb, caseate, caramelise, capacitate, brutalise, brominate, botanize, botanise, bolshevize, bolshevise, blueing, blear, bestialize, bestialise, benficiate, bemire, begrime, bedim, barbarize, barbarise, automatize, automatise, attemper, assibilate, arterialize, arterialise, archaize, archaise, antiquate, animize, animise, animalize, animalise, angulate, allegorize, allegorise, alcoholize, alcoholise, achromatize, achromatise, acerbate, do drugs, substitute, notch, recommend, obscure, cutting, shift, scrap, increase, ginger, lower, turn on, turn down, turn back, turn, make clean, change by reversal, settle, corrupt, color in, color, pose, felt up, felt, cut down, cut back, interchange, antique, plump out, plump, play out, disarray, hanging, shape, change shape, right, wet, switch, develop, jump, bug, change magnitude, produce, warm up, warm, empty, acquire, flour, give way, give out, give, undergo, fill up, fill out, fill, set aside, gear up, discount, bear upon, bear on, louden, dry out, dry, format, draw, make grow, make full, make, climb up, check, drop, fraction, equal, sang, get dressed, get, tender, fly, pad, sex up, dress, grow, collapse, mint, better, update, beef up, colour in, colour, salt, wake up, wake, waste, change surface, change state, change over, change form, grace, excited, speed up, speed, die, narrow, moderate, freeze, cleaning, round off, rise, experience, tense, soap, qualify, put, obtain, think, ash, string, dirty, elaborate, quiet, transition, go out, go, soil, process, market, withdraw, lay, humble, take away, take on, take, come round, come in, come around, come, stand, soup up, cloud, move up, move, resume, find, water down, delay, ice up, ice over, scale down, round down, prepare, fall in, fall for, fall, crash, match, parallel, clear, hot up, end, yield, gas, hay, form, run, action, shelter, set up, even out, even, receive, round out, leave, patent, spot, exchange, dock, frost over, become flat, alien, phase, full, port, tan, rocket, replace, dawn, mark, squash, ready, place, proof, medicine, position, age, work, round, section, base, land, charge, cook, separate, pole, intermediate, have, contract, cave in, part, being, nick, founder, garden, bush, camp, expiate, exalt, cheapen, magnify, palliate, efface, amplify, modulate, conciliate, distend, whet, illumine, impair, undergird, adulterate, reawaken, debone, crystalize, smite, transfuse, overfill, redound, prettify, distort, proselytise, inure, transduce, co-opt, ameliorating, unhinge, fine-tune, furl, bedeck, crystallise, emplace, imbue, detach, evangelise, detoxify, homogenize, perturb, counteract, infuse, attune, disembowel, tranquilize, juxtapose, interpolate, dehumanize, encrust, corrode, overcompensate, unburden, vaporize, demean, intoxicate, roughen, extirpate, embroider, misplace, degrade, detract, overgrow, anglicize, emblazon, ensconce, superimpose, medicate, shoehorn, upend, intersperse, devaluate, parch, scuff, constrict, quench, secularize, scald, moralize, flatten out, maximise, denigrate, moisten, protrude, ablate, irradiate, glom, dismember, restrain, paralyze, stigmatize, cleanse, mangle, restrengthen, shatter, retouch, crystallize, readjust, dehydrate, intermingle, heighten, fluoridate, unscrew, unroll, oversimplify, derogate, depressurize, gussy up, anesthetize, maximize, preempt, dirtying, defang, curdle, synchronizing, ingest, desecrate, atone, irritate, slacken off, overheat, suborn, indent, shrivel up, shrivel, blacken out, blacken, taint, miniaturize, compress, stigmatise, mystify, chlorinate, instill, mutilate, injure, alleviate, resuscitate, repossess, emancipate, delineate, situate, illuminate, throttling, combust, inflame, gnaw at, gnaw, undervalue, sunburn, underlay, pollute, incinerate, anneal, redeem, deplete, proselytize, clap, revitalize, rumple, subdivide, dignify, respire, deviate, scorch, stimulate, festoon, gild the lily, gild, encrypt, clutter up, clutter, lengthen, gerrymander, disinfect, solidify, paralyse, calibrate, slackening, snarl up, snarl, curtail, evangelize, acclimate, subtract, depreciate, inscribe, instal, enclose, numb, scupper, inundate, vacillate, ignite, prickle, erode, assuage, garrotte, reverberate, fishtail, circumcise, untying, curdling, uprise, federalize, unpack, differentiate, disinvest, snick, acclimatize, retrench, sear, preen, snort, clothe, empower, reposition, pacify, revert, endanger, pock, snuff it, recline, refill, interrupt, strop, bleed, tempering, crumple, ordinate, relieve, clog, outgrow, partake in, partake, augment, suck out, appease, wakening, snuggle, choking, throw out of kilter, extinguish, pigeonhole, kink, afflict, placate, ejaculate, overload, truncate, applique, enlarge, counterpoise, grooving, choke, understate, upending, skim off, skim, ruffle, stiffening, redecorate, electrify, sensitizing, clabber, interlock, energizing, solidifying, furbish up, precipitate, dangle, winterize, wean, shimmer, multiply, loosen up, jig, darkening, regrow, unwind, remit, squirt, prod, encircle, crossbreed, flex, goad, amends, retool, gloss over, leaching, squeeze, intermix, bind, segregate, slack off, murk, launder, acclimatise, sedate, recoup, shuck, wipe out, wipe off, wipe away, disengage, regulate, formatting, poke, tinsel, soiling, rivet, replenish, heave, waver, oxygenate, about-face, undercut, unfurl, skew, spangle, subside, hone, adjudicate, smudge, perish, inconvenience, thickening, strap, blemish, fumigate, expose, calve, tease, populate, whiten, delete, recompense, wreathe, inject, fade out, fade away, fade, rifling, flip-flop, conceive, drenching, insert, render, blubber, downsize, catapult, endow, etch, matting, verdigris, puff, quickening, implode, dispose, strangling, harm, foliate, liberate, educate, depopulate, entail, crinkle, filtrate, lactate, sync, aspirate, blinks, bead, decease, fluctuate, muck up, muck, toughen, incorporate, buckle, fulminate, crank, glow, pollinate, lacing, impress, repel, scatter, relapse, reset, downplay, perk up, veer, clotting, droop, enhance, wetting, warp, broaden, conk, knock up, knock out, knock off, shake off, taper off, taper, cramp, debilitating, quash, garrote, fashioning, buttress, vanish, mould, revive, blackening, concoct, inset, misfire, curl, dislodge, ruin, privatise, violate, siphon, burn out, burn, tabulate, recuperate, fret, striate, gut, mellowing, compounding, molding, tinge, mobilise, sallow, moulding, hurrying, demarcate, brace up, brace, chafe, lowering, chink, privatize, underline, ebb, consume, decompress, exhaust, overlay, crisscross, prang up, reconcile, delimit, integrate, amputate, reinforce, brake, sow in, sow, melt off, broadening, remedy, shave, rev up, rev, redevelop, chill out, noise, substantiate, fluff, daub, loosening, vitriol, align, wash up, wash off, wash away, wash, allay, beading, dub, float, repulse, fermenting, moulder, thrive, curb, bottleneck, consolidate, molder, infect, crispen, redden, lather, dilate, cloture, dimple, flourish, drugging, discontinue, undoing, enrich, wither, poise, soot, softening, inlay, frap, degaussing, blending, posit, reheat, trigger, regain, croak, falsify, explode, pique, unfold, waning, citrate, winnow, languish, sift, deteriorate, sprinkle, plumb, stub out, stub, raiment, purging, tear off, tear away, slash, jumble, divest, realise, eliminate, scrubbing, scar, reactivate, pillow, stun, slide down, blot, claw, abort, coating, crease, escalate, disappear, zonk out, curing, culminate, ease, decontrol, activating, annealing, sweetening, mobilize, kick the bucket, clump, bend, sandbag, annul, whittle down, whittle away, brim, retrieve, illustrate, grease, slime, snag, blush, mire, twine, shortening, screw, lag, awake, stick in, stick, counterweight, carve up, carve out, whiteness, jaundice, ripening, duplicate, compare, daze, erupt, repose, formulate, rot, sour, tumble dry, tumble, hardening, rack up, slur, smash up, smash, spoon, undock, worsening, bleach out, bleach, wrap up, blend in, fillet, simmer down, simmer, refrigerate, slowing, emptying, tangle with, irrigate, sulfur, pigment, azure, flush, sophisticate, borrow, ladle, colouring, lure, saturated, leveling, flare, shelve, cram, inebriate, recover, put to sleep, excavate, wrinkle, burden, twinkle, bother, sulphur, shuffle, equip, lift out, trap, inherit, peg, soaking, shaping, garnish, scoop up, scoop out, scoop, lacquer, fracture, dwindle down, dwindle away, dwindle, hurt, drift away, drift apart, wallop, slump, tiller, tune up, tune, slice, wane, bulge out, bulge, blistering, defuse, mottle, burl, buckram, filter out, filter, filet, chrome, jar, hook, tire out, tire, comb, dado, pinion, degenerate, mash, chilling, load up, load, thrust, hump, samba, clipping, fatigue, callus, polychrome, trimming, finalise, hunch over, hunch forward, hunch, tears, scotch, heel, barde, tint, bake, underscore, tart up, rusting, overdose, engage, contour, heap, deluge, sparkling, fag out, fag, flow, ream, burst forth, burst, splash, haw, justify, throw together, throw off, throw in, throw away, throw, receding, freckle, husk, sink, ramp up, angle, spray, deaf, defusing, snowball, strike a blow, blow up, blow out, blow, strengthening, flick, ax, imbricate, detonate, wasting, bait, gentle, sheet, fork, realize, undress, disperse, dredge, tack together, tack, zip, editing, caper, paste, dwindling, lead astray, coupling, scalp, fume, malfunction, crush out, mating, bow, cooling, heterodyne, nail down, brine, peril, updating, expire, mend, pupate, prosper, narrowing, racket, collect, fit out, fit, bottle, lighter, flaw, resolve, sense, crying, smear, speeding, feather, bark, sliver, leafing, tailor, housecleaning, lave, arise, flake, tightening, scattering, pull up, pull out, pull off, pull in, pull, calm, folding, fleck, paint the lily, paint, drive out, drive, dust, glamour, obey, starch, blanch, eat up, eat away, eat at, eat, bundle up, bundle, braid, turn the tide, tide, hack, aggregate, broil, pouch, trick up, trick out, sprout, catch fire, feed, foil, break loose, encoding, lade, aby, boost, speck, burthen, combining, dope up, disgrace, tanning, content, mess up, mess, scallop, o.d., smooth, stucco, batter, layer, twist, profit, bucket, asterisk, muddy up, burning, spiral, discharge, overcast, flop, instrument, place upright, uniting, tone, farce, comfort, detain, devising, dawning, preheat, score, introduce, surcharge, stamp out, cancel, queer, batten down, batten, precondition, desolate, addict, blob, pommel, dip, torch, stuff, avoid, finalize, barrel, toast, rust, teach, stretch out, stretch, bang up, crust, stripe, let, lose weight, lose, lean, trace, blazon, cool it, peroxide, mix in, concealing, bone, hang, ink, bracket out, bracket, par, fissure, pop out, pop off, pop, positioning, bilge, proportion, glory, jelly, readying, imprint, dismantle, bore, coloring, rent, crisp, discipline, write in code, wear upon, wear out, wear off, wear down, wear away, wear, upgrade, stool, slow up, slow, weight down, weight, sinking, fledge, influence, cream off, alarm, awakening, bur, whitewash, pitch, bring together, bring to, bring round, bring in, bring back, bring around, lime, widening, slip, install, prank, tee up, tee, arm, kill, swamp, creosote, ration, blotch, clone, damages, luck into, conclude, lube, tincture, axe, make relaxed, bound, pass out, pass away, pod, garb, weeping, repair, get worse, cock, help, dusk, express, barbed, benefit, fancy up, break off, break in, break away, birch, vary, decoy, pinnacle, shade off, dig, zero in, zero, deck up, deck out, dye, pile, beset, coordinate, bust, cash in one's chips, rush, steady down, steady, garner, butt, winterise, weatherstrip, vinify, vermiculate, vacuum-clean, urticate, unweave, untwist, untwine, unstring, unstrain, unsaddle, unlax, unhallow, unfastening, underdress, underdevelop, uncurl, unbend, transmogrify, tranquillize, tranquillise, tinct, thrombose, teethe, tauten, syncretize, syncretise, superpose, summerize, summerise, subrogate, subedit, stupefy, stalinize, stalinise, spring-cleaning, spray-dry, spiritualise, spin-dry, sparge, sousing, sorcerize, sorcerise, smirch, slam-dunk, shoetree, sensualize, sensualise, sensitising, semi-automatize, semi-automatise, secularise, scrag, scollop, scarify, ruggedize, ruggedise, rubricate, rough-dry, rigidifying, rigidify, retrovert, resect, repercuss, remilitarize, remilitarise, reenforce, readapt, re-assume, raddle, quiesce, quick-freeze, putrefy, purpurate, prink, prepose, postpose, polychromize, polychromise, pollenate, pluralize, pluralise, pipe-clay, pinkify, pervaporate, permute, parti-color, parallelize, overdress, overboil, over-correct, outwear, offsaddle, nobble, nitrogenize, nitrogenise, nigrify, narcotizing, narcotize, narcotising, narcotise, moralise, mislay, misfunction, miniaturise, metrify, metricize, metricise, metricate, mercerize, mercerise, marbleize, marbleise, lustrate, linearize, linearise, lenify, latinize, latinise, lapidify, jellify, infuscate, indue, individuate, incrust, incommode, inclose, incarnadine, immingle, imbrue, illume, hypophysectomize, hypophysectomise, hygienize, hygienise, hydrolize, hydrolise, houseclean, homologize, homologise, homogenise, handcolour, handcolor, habilitate, gruntle, granulate, give-up the ghost, gasify, garotte, fructify, free-base, focalize, focalise, fluoridize, fluoridise, flash-freeze, federalise, fancify, face-harden, exsiccate, expurgate, expectorate, exenterate, everting, etherize, etherise, equilibrize, equilibrise, epilate, enucleate, engild, endue, enclothe, encipher, empurple, emend, embrown, embrangle, electroplate, edulcorate, dulcorate, dulcify, dry-rot, drip-dry, draggle, dissever, disoblige, disjoin, disincarnate, discommode, discolourise, discolorize, discolorise, discerp, disburden, disarrange, dialyze, dialyse, diagonalize, diagonalise, devitrify, detusk, detoxicate, desynchronize, desynchronise, destalinize, destalinise, desorb, desiccate, descale, derange, depressurise, depilate, demineralize, demineralise, delouse, deliquesce, delimitate, dehumidify, dehumanise, dehorn, deflower, decrescendo, decorticate, deconsecrate, decolourize, decolourise, decolour, decolorize, decolorise, decolor, decoke, decoct, decarburize, decarburise, decarbonize, decarbonise, de-ionate, de-iodinate, dandify, crystalise, cross-pollinate, cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise, cross-dress, countervail, copyread, copyedit, consubstantiate, constringe, constipate, constellate, conglobe, conglobate, conflagrate, commutate, citify, chondrify, channelize, channelise, catholicize, catholicise, carnify, carnalize, carnalise, caparison, camphorate, burred, broider, brecciate, bowdlerize, bowdlerise, blow-dry, blackwash, bituminize, bituminise, besprinkle, bespot, bespangle, besot, benight, beneficiate, bejewel, begild, bedraggle, bedizen, bedight, bedew, bedaze, becalm, bastardize, bastardise, bacterize, bacterise, avulse, aurify, appose, anglicise, anesthetise, anaesthetize, anaesthetise, ammoniate, air-condition, aerify, acidulate, abye, abacinate, do the dishes, sluice, vacuum, horn, carry off, carry away, partition off, partition, pressure, tie, metal, mud, blench, grooming, assemble, clothes, spill, invest, burr, fitting, turn up, turn the tables, turn around, warming, keep down, aline, pattern, steam clean, dry clean, clean up, clean out, clean house, weary, crimson, bream, crock, settle down, describe, degas, involve, cut up, cut off, habit, trash, orient, play, bale out, curve, freezing, perch, locating, flood, put right, switch over, manifold, evacuate, pack, bug out, pipe down, pipe, lead off, dimension, broom, strain, keynote, share, sit up, sit down, sit, tell on, char, hollow out, hollow, bard, earn, nock, act upon, cabbage, shut, snowshoe, streak, capsule, come to, trend, charcoal, button, pepper, toy, register, print, chip off, chip away at, chip away, chip, tog up, tog out, tog, reef, gun, gather up, fill again, cypher, piece, deep freeze, gear, kite, take a hit, hit, bear off, bear away, bushel, run dry, dry up, dry cleaning, bathing, ret, hedge, draw together, draw out, draw off, draw away, garment, climb, sleek over, object, unveil, pick up, pick, apparel, pine away, gauge, drop out, drop off, drop down, drop dead, poisoning, nestle, stem, increasing,