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 thick walls deadened the noise from the street.
  这道厚墙隔绝了街上的噪音。
• 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。
• 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。
• It's much brxdyer to ask questions even when there's a prospect of ridicule than to suppress your questions and become deadened to the world around you.
  明知会引起嘲笑而提问要比把问题埋在心里、对周围的一切变得麻木不仁要勇敢得多。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• Unhappiness had deadened her to the lives of others.
  她遭遇不幸，因而对别人的生活也无动于衷。
• 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。
• My thick clothing deadened the blow.
  我的厚衣减轻了打击的力量。