Usually means: Reduces intensity or effectiveness significantly.
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  1. deadens: Merriam-Webster
  2. deadens: Collins English Dictionary
  3. deadens: Vocabulary.com
  4. deadens: Wordnik
  5. deadens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. deadens: Wiktionary
  7. deadens: Dictionary.com
  8. deadens: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. deadens: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. deadens: Legal dictionary

(Note: See deaden as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (deaden)

verb:  (transitive) To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.
verb:  (intransitive) To become less lively; to diminish (by itself).
verb:  (transitive) To make soundproof.
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