III. WORDS RELATING TO MATTER

III. ORGANIC MATTER

2. Sensation; Special Sensation; Sound; Specific Sounds

[Antonyms: resonance.]

[Nouns] thud, thump, dead sound; nonresonance; muffled drums, cracked bell; damper; silencer.

[Verbs] sound dead; stop the sound, damp the sound, deaden the sound, deaden the reverberations, dampen the reverberations.

[Adjectives] nonresonant, dead.