| 词汇 | deadening |
| 释义 | deadening adjective uk /ˈded.ən.ɪŋ/ us /ˈded.ən.ɪŋ/ making a feeling or a sound less painful or less strong: The doctor waited for the deadening effect of the anaesthesia to take effect. The deadening sensations had now spread to the other side of his body. preventing new ideas from developing: 阻碍发展的；使僵化的 She hated the deadening world of work where her managers weren't interested in new ideas. Repetition is considered to be deadening, boring, and thoughtless. The padded fabric in the studio creates a dense, deadening effect so music sounds better. Some airports try to improve the deadening experience of business travel. His school was a deadening place in which it was uncool to try too hard. 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 You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Discouraging and putting off Boredom, tedium and boring things Related wordsdeaden deadeningly Examples of deadeningdeadening Participants recognized a strengthened body and spirit following several months of physical and emotional deadening. Critics argued that the official ceremonies were intellectually deadening and that official intrusion into salons damaged their ability to create enlightened public opinion. He felt the imposition of geometric ordering schemes as a deadening force, oppressing other kinds of ordering such as might arise from use or context. But the tenderness of humour survives even this deadening interruption of the old relationship. For him, geometric ordering systems were a deadening force. 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'. Every time we discussed control and decontrol we heard talk of the deadening effects of rent restriction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The deadening pseudo-morality found in society should give us pause for thought. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English But the effect has been to produce a general deadening in the tempo of national life, a slowing down in practically every field of activity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is nothing to my mind more deadening than merely relying on precedents and never being able to get outside precedents. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is also the worsening of the further deadening impact on unemployment figures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has had a serious effect on manufactures and a very deadening effect on the workpeople. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But really one of the most deadening things that people talk about today is uniformity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is some evidence against the previous theory that such high levels of taxation would have a universally deadening effect. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We can only have success in industry if we get away from the present deadening effect of a bad system of paying wages. 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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