deaden

verb

1. 使（声音、感觉等）减弱，缓和，迟钝
   to make sth such as a sound, a feeling, etc. less strong
   1. He was given drugs to deaden the pain.
      给了他止痛药。

1. VERB 缓和，减弱（感觉）；降低（声音）
   If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
   1. He needs morphine to deaden the pain in his chest...
      他需要吗啡来缓解胸痛。
   2. They managed to deaden the sound on TV every time the alleged victim's name was spoken.
      每当提到据称是受害者的人的姓名时，他们都设法调低电视机的声音。

1. He needs morphine to deaden the pain in his chest
   他需要吗啡来缓解胸痛。
2. They managed to deaden the sound on TV every time the alleged victim's name was spoken.
   每当提到据称是受害者的人的姓名时，他们都设法调低电视机的声音。
3. One pill will deaden the ache.
   一片药就可止痛。
4. A terrified old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry.
   一个吓破了胆的老妇人，把一块厚床垫系在两根晾衣服的杆子上挂在窗口外面，用以阻挡流弹。
5. To test the theory, psychologists reached for the botox. They used the toxin to deaden the muscles that control frowning.
   为测试这项理论，心理学家把目光转向了肉毒杆菌，他们用这种毒素使控制皱眉的肌肉麻痹无力。
6. AS soon as they were gone, Elizabeth walked out to recover her spirits; or in other words, to dwell without interruption on those subjects that must deaden them more.
   他们一走，伊丽莎白便到屋外去留达，好让自己精神舒畅一下，换句话说，也就是不停去想那些足以使她精神更加沉闷的念头。
7. But a city is not a machine; as in Masdar and Songdo, this version of the city can deaden and stupefy the people who live in its all-efficient embrace.
   但是城市不是一台机器，不能像马斯达尔和松岛那样，那样版本的城市会在高效中使得生活其中的人们变得死气沉沉和昏头昏脑。
8. Thick walls that deaden street noises
   隔绝市街噪声的厚墙
9. How many ofyou deaden your wrinkles with that crap?
   你们有多少人用那个废物来减少皱纹的？
10. So from youth onwards you gradually deaden and destroy the instrument which should be highly sensitive, active, functioning like a perfect machine.
    所以从年轻时起，你就在逐渐地压抑和破坏着身体这具本应像一台完美的机器一样高度敏感、活跃地运作着的仪器。
11. Doesn't his work preclude skill in action and so deaden him that he has no skill in anything else either?
    难道他的工作不正妨碍了行动的技巧，如此压抑他以致于他在其他任何事情上都不擅长？
12. Matt had learnt at an early age to deaden his feelings and to distrust those who offered him help.
    马特在幼年时就学会麻木自己的感觉，并且不信任那些提供帮助的人。
13. Science can kill as well as create; technology can deaden the human spirit or lift it to the farthermost corners of our imaginations.
    科学能毁灭也能创造；科技能够泯灭人的精神或者将它推升到我们想像的最远的角落。
14. Rubber insulation is used to deaden the vibrations of the motor.
    橡胶绝缘体被用来减少马达的震动。
15. The progress and trends of automotive ornamental material used to absorb or deaden noise
    汽车内饰材料吸音隔音性能的研究现状及发展趋势
16. Too many rules might deaden creativity.
    过多的规矩会钝化一个人的创造力。
17. Grave grass will grow over the graveyard and will deaden your grief, my old father.
    墓草严重将超越悲痛，将你的耳目，我的老父亲。
18. A medication to deaden the pain; wall tiles that deaden the sound from the rehearsal studio.
    止痛的药疗法；能减弱来自彩排室声音的墙砖。
19. Read a book, talk to a friend, eat your favorite food. Don't deaden your senses with alcohol ( although if you're a wine connoisseur, your special wine can be a gift) or spend big bucks at the mall.
    不要让自己麻醉在酒精中（如果你是一名品酒师，一杯独特的酒也是一份很好的礼物）或是在大型购物商店中挥金如土。
20. He took the candlestick in his right hand, holding his breath and trying to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of the adjoining room, occupied by the bishop, as we already know.
    他用右手握住那根烛钎，屏住呼吸，放轻脚步，走向隔壁那间屋子，我们知道，那是主教的卧房。
21. Her feet were deaden with cold.
    她的脚都冻得麻木了。
22. They, therefore, endeavour, and that consistently, to deaden the class struggle and to reconcile the class antagonisms.
    因此，他们一贯企图削弱阶级斗争，调和对立。
23. Now became the opiate used to deaden the pain of seriozha's loss.
    现在用来减低失掉儿子的痛楚。
24. Drugs deaden the pangs of hunger.
    麻醉药品能缓和饥饿的痛感。
25. Basing on the form of a single bubble and the resonance phenomenon caused by the effect of sound waves on the bubbles in water, the paper expounded "deaden sound" character of bubbles.
    从单个气泡的存在形式及其物理意义出发，针对水中声波对气泡的作用，进而形成的共振现象，阐述了气泡的消声特点。
26. A main task of developing countries in future is to promote economy development, deaden feature of dual economy and realize industrialization.
    促进经济发展，消除二元结构经济特征，实现工业化，始终而且仍然是发展中国家今后一段较长时期内的主要任务。

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
   1. Terror blunted her feelings
   2. deaden a sound

   Synonym:    blunt

3. become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active

4. make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
   1. muffle the message

   Synonym:    dampendamp

5. lessen the momentum or velocity of
   1. deaden a ship's headway

6. make vapid or deprive of spirit
   1. deadened wine

7. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
   1. girdle the plant

   Synonym:    girdle