deaden

英 ['dedn] 美 ['dedn]

• vt. 使(感觉、痛苦等)减弱；使隔音
• vi 死去；失去活力或光泽；不快乐.

英英释义

Verb:

1. make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible;

   "muffle the message"
   

2. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients;

   "girdle the plant"
   

3. make vapid or deprive of spirit;

   "deadened wine"
   

4. lessen the momentum or velocity of;

   "deaden a ship's headway"
   

5. become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor

6. make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation;

   "Terror blunted her feelings"
   "deaden a sound"
   

7. convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil

经典引文

• Grass which had seeded between the cobbles..deadened her steps.

  出自： E. Bowen

近反义词

【近义词】

• dampen (使)潮湿
• muffle 围裹
• soften (使)变柔和
• damp 潮湿的
• paralyze 使 ... 瘫痪
• silence 沉默
• darken 变暗
• drug 毒品
• dull 呆滞的
• lower 低的
• mute 哑子
• stifle 使窒息
• blunt 钝的
• girdle 腰带

【反义词】

• enliven 活跃
• stimulate 刺激