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

• So from youth onwards you gradually deaden and destroy the instrument which should be highly sensitive, active, functioning like a perfect machine.
  所以从年轻时起，你就在逐渐地压抑和破坏着身体这具本应像一台完美的机器一样高度敏感、活跃地运作着的仪器。
• 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。
• Science can kill as well as create; technology can deaden the human spirit or lift it to the farthermost corners of our imaginations.
  科学能毁灭也能创造；科技能够泯灭人的精神或者将它推升到我们想像的最远的角落。
• 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？
• 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。
• Too many rules might deaden creativity.
  过多的规矩会钝化一个人的创造力。
• 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。
• He took the candlestick in his right hand, holding his breath and trying to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of the adjoining room, occupied by the bishop, as we already know.
  他用右手握住那根烛钎，屏住呼吸，放轻脚步，走向隔壁那间屋子，我们知道，那是主教的卧房。
• Her feet were deaden with cold.
  她的脚都冻得麻木了。
• To test the theory, psychologists reached for the botox. They used the toxin to deaden the muscles that control frowning.
  为测试这项理论，心理学家把目光转向了肉毒杆菌，他们用这种毒素使控制皱眉的肌肉麻痹无力。