deaden

Other forms of deaden

past tense

deadenned·

present participle

deadenning·

third person

deadens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deaden

What does deaden mean?

deaden means "make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deaden?

deaden has 2 syllables: dead-en. The stress falls on "dead". In IPA it is /ˈdɛdən/.

What is another word for deaden?

Close synonyms include dampen, damp, girdle, blunt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of deaden?

The recorded antonyms are enliven.

Is deaden a common word?

deaden is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.