| 词汇 | deadened |
| 释义 | deadened past simple and past participle ofdeaden 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 damp dwindling ease ease someone's mindidiom ease up/off fall away reducible reduction resize retreat rightsize telescope tumble Related wordsdeadening deadeningly Examples of deadeneddeadened In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. And even if no longer acoustically deadened, they can still be deprived of their otherworldly dimension. Any sense of spontaneity and immediate self-expression is deadened. Applied as a plaster, it deadened pain. 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 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 He did not agree that compounding deadened the interest of small occupiers in the rates because they did not pay them direct. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not want to see this lively and living area deadened by the wrong sort of emphasis on conservation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The market is bound to be deadened; it is bound to reduce the amount of offers that will be made. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are told that we have deadened private enterprise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But this may, or may not, have deadened the speculation and the rumours which have been rife for so many months. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Have our consciences been so deadened that we do not care now under what conditions goods are produced so long only as they are cheap? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was able to throw the length of a hotel ballroom after doctors deadened his shoulder. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. But behind all this is a clearly wounded, perhaps even emotionally deadened, human being, and that really resonates as the game progresses. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There may be nourishment in it but the senses are deadened by the taste, and the aftertaste gives one a pain in the stomach. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. On trials in 1933, the system was judged successful as it deadened the ship's roll by 37-65%. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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