deaden a ship's headway. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Goods, that devour our Money, and deaden our Industry. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753] Reference
It did however deaden pain, and made endurance possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
Frank libertinage, does it deaden the sting of the senses?. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
"Didn't he give you anything to deaden the pain, Harriet?". From Wordnik.com. [Harriet, the Moses of Her People] Reference
A little lamp black will serve to deaden the color of the paint. From Wordnik.com. [Apple Growing] Reference
Thick carpets, into which the feet sink, deaden the sound of footsteps. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The snow will deaden the hoofbeats of the ponies, but keep as still as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
"To put in your ears, so as to deaden the noise of the report," said the lieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
She sounded like a woman pleading for some drug to deaden pain, memory, and conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
O these gross appetites! how they deaden the immortal half, and wall out Heaven's music!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
And the old arguments and suspicions rise again in her mind and deaden all other feelings. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
The floor should be covered with linoleum, or some similar floor covering, to deaden sound. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
He thought of all that a maddened nature can imagine to deaden its own intolerable anguish. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
Once his father had undergone an operation, and to deaden his pain chloroform had been used. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
A clean floor, with a few rugs to deaden the footsteps, is much better than a woolen carpet. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The weeds are overgrowing my burial-place, and they deaden even thy sorrow, O my aged father!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
She came to a door before which hung heavy curtains; but these curtains did not deaden the sound entirely. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
But if you have something you can deaden certain strings and end up with a cord, then you have the autoharp. From Wordnik.com. [New CD Celebrates Masters of Old-Time Autoharp] Reference
The flame will deaden the brightest colors in the room, and the dresses of the company will seem to be changed. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
Waving his giant hands in a downward motion to deaden applause, droning on humorlessly, Bradley dared to be dull. From Wordnik.com. [Caught In Clinton's Shadow] Reference
This end can be effected by having the intervening walls and floors so constructed as completely to deaden sound. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
In presidential campaigns they depict Washington as a conspiracy to deaden faith, charity and individual initiative. From Wordnik.com. [Tough Love From The Dems] Reference
She chafed her hands, loathing herself that she could not deaden down their shiver or the stinging pain in her head. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
The mandates of Slavery are like leaden sounds, sinking with dead weight into the very soul, only to deaden and destroy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
A drink containing an opiate was generally given the victim to deaden the pain but often this formality was dispensed with. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
With weighted ends muffled to deaden their fall upon the rock floor, they began casting to get contact with their neighbors. From Wordnik.com. [The Cavern of the Shining Ones] Reference
When we cease to keep challenging, learning about and developing ourselves, we deaden ourselves in our closest relationships. From Wordnik.com. [Lisa Firestone: Five Ways to Bring Your Vacation Romance Home With You] Reference
I am afraid that he cannot last many weeks longer, and, more than once, I have had to give him a hypodermic to deaden his pain. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
I shall, of course, cover it with a bit of black felt to prevent our light from showing, and to deaden any sounds from this side. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
The ease with which the harvest of chestnuts is annually obtained tends to foster indolence and deaden enterprise among the peasantry. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads] Reference
Wheels in those days were constructed entirely of iron with straight axles and spokes, not wooden blocked as at present to deaden noise. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference
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