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

• A medication to deaden the pain; wall tiles that deaden the sound from the rehearsal studio.
  止痛的药疗法；能减弱来自彩排室声音的墙砖。
• But a city is not a machine; as in Masdar and Songdo, this version of the city can deaden and stupefy the people who live in its all-efficient embrace.
  但是城市不是一台机器，不能像马斯达尔和松岛那样，那样版本的城市会在高效中使得生活其中的人们变得死气沉沉和昏头昏脑。
• 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。
• Thick walls that deaden street noises
  隔绝市街噪声的厚墙
• He needs morphine to deaden the pain in his chest
  他需要吗啡来缓解胸痛。
• Drugs deaden the pangs of hunger.
  麻醉药品能缓和饥饿的痛感。
• Matt had learnt at an early age to deaden his feelings and to distrust those who offered him help.
  马特在幼年时就学会麻木自己的感觉，并且不信任那些提供帮助的人。
• 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
• One pill will deaden the ache.
  一片药就可止痛。
• 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。