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

• 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。
• 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？
• AS soon as they were gone, Elizabeth walked out to recover her spirits; or in other words, to dwell without interruption on those subjects that must deaden them more.
  他们一走，伊丽莎白便到屋外去留达，好让自己精神舒畅一下，换句话说，也就是不停去想那些足以使她精神更加沉闷的念头。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。