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***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

• Her feet were deaden with cold.
  她的脚都冻得麻木了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Basing on the form of a single bubble and the resonance phenomenon caused by the effect of sound waves on the bubbles in water, the paper expounded "deaden sound" character of bubbles.
  从单个气泡的存在形式及其物理意义出发，针对水中声波对气泡的作用，进而形成的共振现象，阐述了气泡的消声特点。
• 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。