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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Drugs deaden the pangs of hunger.
  麻醉药品能缓和饥饿的痛感。
• 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。
• Too many rules might deaden creativity.
  过多的规矩会钝化一个人的创造力。
• 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。
• Thick walls that deaden street noises
  隔绝市街噪声的厚墙
• 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
• 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。