| 词汇 | deaden |
| 释义 | deaden verb[ T ] uk /ˈded.ən/ us /ˈded.ən/ to make something less painful or less strong: 缓解，减轻（疼痛）；削弱 Morphine is often used to deaden the pain of serious injuries.吗啡常用来缓解重伤引起的疼痛。 Double glazing has helped to deaden the noise from the road.装上双层玻璃有助于降低公路上传来的噪音。 Becoming and making smaller or less abridgment attenuate attenuated attenuating attenuation compress contraction dwindling ease ease someone's mindidiom ease up/off fall away halve reduce reducible reduction resize retreat trough tumble Related wordsdeadening deadeningly deaden | American Dictionarydeaden verb[ T ] us/ˈded·ən/ to reduce the severity or effect of something: He asked for some stronger medication to deaden the pain. Examples of deadendeaden And even if no longer acoustically deadened, they can still be deprived of their otherworldly dimension. Critics argued that the official ceremonies were intellectually deadening and that official intrusion into salons damaged their ability to create enlightened public opinion. Repetition deadens our capacity to think, but leaves its sediment in the mind. But the tenderness of humour survives even this deadening interruption of the old relationship. Any sense of spontaneity and immediate self-expression is deadened. Well, one way to deal with such torment is to deaden or suppress the very good that is causing this torment. In particular, legged robots may use their natural compliance to deaden any shock when dealing with an unknown environment. Stanislavsky was well aware that the inexperienced actor was prone to a deadening self-consciousness that inhibited 'delicate shadings of feeling or the spiritual life of your part'. Applied as a plaster, it deadened pain. It has attempted to deaden the fire by grouting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The perpetual treadmill of austerity forced on people who are hungry for something which is surplus in the world, will deaden all men's efforts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole thing deadens debate and reduces it to the level of commonplace interjections upon masters of high public importance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is better to be carried away by enthusiasm than deadened by apathy and deadened by predetermined decisions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A palliative deadens pain and hides the real trouble which is not therefore cured. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are becoming emotionally deadened by the horrors that we witness and have come to accept violence as normal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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