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

• 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？
• A main task of developing countries in future is to promote economy development, deaden feature of dual economy and realize industrialization.
  促进经济发展，消除二元结构经济特征，实现工业化，始终而且仍然是发展中国家今后一段较长时期内的主要任务。
• 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。
• Her feet were deaden with cold.
  她的脚都冻得麻木了。
• 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。
• Drugs deaden the pangs of hunger.
  麻醉药品能缓和饥饿的痛感。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。