Clues for the word "DEADEN"
We've had 29 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 75 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on July 18, 2026.
Definition of deaden
- a. - To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
- a. - To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.
- a. - To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
- a. - To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.
Referring Clues
- Make vapid
- Muffle
- Muffle, as a sound
- Blunt
- Numb
- Anesthetize
- Make quieter
- Dull
- Benumb
- Muffle, as sound
- Make numb
- Kill, as pain
- Give Novocain
- Desensitize
- Apply novocaine to
- Use novocain
- Apply novocain, e.g.
- Tone down
- Dull as last character leaving cul-de-sac?
- Damp down
- Kill
- Head of faculty, when admitting dunce's limitations, is blunt
- Dampen
- Apply benzocaine to
- Numb, dampen
- Quiet
- Make far, far less sensitive
- Stifle, as a sound
- Subdue
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - July 18, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - May 06, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 08, 2025
- LA Times - March 21, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 21, 2024
- New York Times - October 14, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 03, 2024
- New York Times - September 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 14, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 23, 2024
- New York Times - December 24, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 15, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - July 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - April 17, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - March 07, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 13, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 26, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - June 28, 2022
- LA Times - December 02, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - September 17, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - July 04, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - June 14, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - June 11, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - April 17, 2017
- And in 45 more crossword puzzles...