deaden

英 [ˈdedn]

美 [ˈdedn]

v.  使(声音、感觉等)减弱，缓和，迟钝

现在分词：deadening　过去分词：deadened　第三人称单数：deadens　过去式：deadened　

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BNC.23608 / COCA.23285

牛津词典

verb

• 使（声音、感觉等）减弱，缓和，迟钝
  to make sth such as a sound, a feeling, etc. less strong
  1. He was given drugs to deaden the pain.
     给了他止痛药。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 缓和，减弱（感觉）；降低（声音）
  If somethingdeadensa feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
  1. He needs morphine to deaden the pain in his chest...
     他需要吗啡来缓解胸痛。
  2. They managed to deaden the sound on TV every time the alleged victim's name was spoken.
     每当提到据称是受害者的人的姓名时，他们都设法调低电视机的声音。

英英释义

verb

• 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
  1. Terror blunted her feelings
  2. deaden a sound
  Synonym:blunt
• become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active
• make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
  1. muffle the message
  Synonym:dampendamp
• lessen the momentum or velocity of
  1. deaden a ship's headway
• make vapid or deprive of spirit
  1. deadened wine
• cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
  1. girdle the plant
  Synonym:girdle

双语例句

• Grave grass will grow over the graveyard and will deaden your grief, my old father.
  墓草严重将超越悲痛，将你的耳目，我的老父亲。
• A terrified old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry.
  一个吓破了胆的老妇人，把一块厚床垫系在两根晾衣服的杆子上挂在窗口外面，用以阻挡流弹。
• How many ofyou deaden your wrinkles with that crap?
  你们有多少人用那个废物来减少皱纹的？
• Doesn't his work preclude skill in action and so deaden him that he has no skill in anything else either?
  难道他的工作不正妨碍了行动的技巧，如此压抑他以致于他在其他任何事情上都不擅长？
• The progress and trends of automotive ornamental material used to absorb or deaden noise
  汽车内饰材料吸音隔音性能的研究现状及发展趋势
• Too many rules might deaden creativity.
  过多的规矩会钝化一个人的创造力。
• Her feet were deaden with cold.
  她的脚都冻得麻木了。
• Now became the opiate used to deaden the pain of seriozha's loss.
  现在用来减低失掉儿子的痛楚。
• Read a book, talk to a friend, eat your favorite food. Don't deaden your senses with alcohol ( although if you're a wine connoisseur, your special wine can be a gift) or spend big bucks at the mall.
  不要让自己麻醉在酒精中（如果你是一名品酒师，一杯独特的酒也是一份很好的礼物）或是在大型购物商店中挥金如土。
• They, therefore, endeavour, and that consistently, to deaden the class struggle and to reconcile the class antagonisms.
  因此，他们一贯企图削弱阶级斗争，调和对立。