6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
verb make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
verb cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
verb make vapid or deprive of spirit
originFrom dead + -en. Compare Dutch doden (“to kill”), West Frisian deadzje (“to kill”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0