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***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 deadened pangs of hunger.
  渐渐退去的饥饿痛感。
• 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。
• 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。
• The thick walls deadened the noise from the street.
  这道厚墙隔绝了街上的噪音。
• Could not one see that so sprightly a girl would soon be deadened by a man like Willoughby?
  难道人们看不出来，一个如此生气勃勃的姑娘很快就会被威洛比那样的男人搞得死气沉沉吗？
• 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。
• Many women have been afraid to admit to terrifying visions or deadened emotions, believing they should be flush with maternal joy or fearing their babies would be taken from them.
  很多女性一直害怕承认自己有可怕的念头，或是低落的情绪，认为自己应该陶醉在当母亲的喜悦中，或是害怕孩子会被夺走。
• 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。
• In certain people the level of aspiration may be permanently deadened or lowered.
  有一些人，他的愿望可能永远保持着僵化或者低下的程度。
• He deadened the noise of the machine with rubber mats.
  他用橡胶垫给机器消音。