1. 緩和,減弱(感覺(jué));降低(聲音) If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
e.g. He needs morphine to deaden the pain in his chest... 他需要嗎啡來(lái)緩解胸痛。 e.g. They managed to deaden the sound on TV every time the alleged victim's name was spoken. 每當提到據稱(chēng)是受害者的人的姓名時(shí),他們都設法調低電視機的聲音。
deaden英英釋義
verb
1. convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
2. make less lively, intense, or vigorous impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
e.g. Terror blunted her feelings deaden a sound
Synonym: blunt
3. become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active lose life, force, or vigor
4. make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
e.g. muffle the message
Synonym: dampendamp
5. lessen the momentum or velocity of
e.g. deaden a ship's headway
6. make vapid or deprive of spirit
e.g. deadened wine
7. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients