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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Too many rules might deaden creativity.
  过多的规矩会钝化一个人的创造力。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。