deadened

英 [ˈdednd]

美 [ˈdednd]

v.  使(声音、感觉等)减弱，缓和，迟钝
deaden的过去分词和过去式

过去式：deadened　

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

adj

• made or become less intense
  1. the deadened pangs of hunger
• devoid of physical sensation
  1. his gums were dead from the novocain
  2. she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth
  3. a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities
  Synonym:dead

双语例句

• The crafty sons of darkness shall squirm in discomfort as their ritual of lies fall in shambles in a pile around their deadened feet.
  狡猾的黑暗小人s应该会很不舒服地蠕动，因为他们谎言大厦将倒塌成废墟在他们的瘫腿附近堆满瓦砾。
• He deadened the noise of the machine with rubber mats.
  他用橡胶垫给机器消音。
• One favorable circumstance, which enabled Marius not to lose a word of this conversation was the falling snow which deadened the sound of vehicles on the boulevard.
  马吕斯能完全听清这次对话的一个有利条件，是街上的积雪减轻了过往车辆震动的声音。
• Also, be thankful, since this painful process is a sign that we are becoming alive to our deadened emotions.
  同时，感恩吧，因为这个痛苦的历程是生命开始苏醒的征兆，是那些久已死去的情感复苏的征兆。
• His gums were dead from the novocain; she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth; a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities.
  他得齿龈因使用麻醉剂而失去知觉的；当牙医钻她失去知觉的牙齿时，她没有感到任何不适。
• Your constant criticism has deadened their enthusiasm.
  你接二连叁地批评降低了他们的热情。
• The dentist deadened the nerve with Novocaine.
  牙医用奴佛卡因麻醉神经。
• Loudspeaker electrostatic mounted in its enclosure The driver deadened the noise of the car with a new muffler.
  静电式扬声器，装在扬声器箱内司机安装了新的消声器减少汽车嗓音。
• By using the method, all kinds of disturbing errors can be deadened efficiently, the computing result is certain of converging to the true value of the roundness error, and the error of parameter estimation is very small.
  这种新方法对各种类型误差的衰减能力很强，相对圆度误差真值的收敛性很好，参数估计误差很小。
• Well, well, fortune plays a man queer tricks. He got back to his office and joined in a conversation with friends. It was as if idle chatter deadened the sense of misery.
  唉，命运真会捉弄人埃他回到酒店，加入到朋友们中间聊天，好像闲聊可以麻痹他心中的痛楚。