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

• 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。
• The deadened pangs of hunger.
  渐渐退去的饥饿痛感。
• 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。
• I say deadened feet because they will be paralysed into inaction by the shock to their psyche caused by the revelations of their dark, depraved, sadistic and manipulative practices.
  瘫痪，是因为其黑暗，堕落，残暴和操纵行为的曝光将引起他们心理上的震撼致使他们瘫痪。
• He deadened the noise of the machine with rubber mats.
  他用橡胶垫给机器消音。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• The driver deadened the noise of the car with a new muffler.
  司机安装了新的消声器减少汽车嗓音。