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DEADEN
Definition of DEADEN
verb
To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From dead + -en. Compare Dutch doden (“to kill”), West Frisian deadzje (“to kill”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, DEADEN · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DEADEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DEADEN starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADDEEN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D and E appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start DEADEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DEADEN?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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