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deaden: convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil; make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"; become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor; lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"; make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"

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benumb collapse

anesthetize collapse: make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs; "The patient must be anesthetized before the operation"

slake collapse: make less active or intense

soothe collapse: cause to feel better; "the medicine soothes the pain of the inflammation"

appease collapse

mollify collapse: make less rigid or softer

alleviate collapse

assuage collapse

palliate collapse

desensitize collapse: make insensitive; "His military training desensitized him"; cause not to be sensitive; "The war desensitized many soldiers"; "The photographic plate was desensitized"

besot collapse: make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation

eviscerate collapse: having been disembowelled; take away a vital or essential part of; "the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"; remove the contents of; "eviscerate the stomach"

allay collapse

poultice collapse: a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.; dress by covering with a therapeutic substance

narcotize collapse: administer narcotics to

deafen collapse: make soundproof; "deafen a room"; make or render deaf; "a deafening noise"; be unbearably loud; "a deafening noise"

devitalize collapse: sap of life or energy; "The recession devitalized the economy"

soft pedal collapse: a pedal on a piano that moves the action closer to the strings and so soften the sound

neutralize collapse: make chemically neutral; "She neutralized the solution"; make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"; make incapable of military action; get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"; make politically neutral and thus inoffensive; "The treaty neutralized the small republic"

etherize collapse: anesthetize with ether

salve collapse: anything that remedies or heals or soothes; "he needed a salve for his conscience"; apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing

lessen collapse

enfeeble collapse: make weak; "Life in the camp drained him"

underplay collapse: play a card lower than (a held high card)

numb collapse: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses"

play down collapse

de emphasize collapse

chasten collapse: restrain or temper

stupefy collapse

slacken collapse: make slack as by lessening tension or firmness; become looser or slack; "the rope slackened"

stultify collapse: cause to appear foolish; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent"; prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence; "nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself"

unnerve collapse

subdue collapse

soften collapse: become soft or softer; "The bread will soften if you pour some liquid on it"; make soft or softer; "This liquid will soften your laundry"; make (images or sounds) soft or softer

chloroform collapse: a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic; "chloroform was the first inhalation anesthetic"; anesthetize with chloroform; "Doctors used to put people under by chloroforming them"

relieve collapse: provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches"; alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive; "relieve the pressure and the stress"; "lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents"; take by stealing; "The thief relieved me of $100"; free from a burden, evil, or distress

mitigate collapse: make less severe or harsh; "mitigating circumstances"

foment collapse: bathe with warm water or medicated lotions; "His legs should be fomented"

enervate collapse: weaken mentally or morally

lull collapse: a period of calm weather; "there was a lull in the storm"; become quiet or less intensive; "the fighting lulled for a moment"; calm by deception; "Don't let yourself be lulled into a false state of security"

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