deaden
vt. 抑制 (感情),缓和 (疼痛); 减弱 (声音)
If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.
He needs morphine to deaden the pain in his chest...
他需要吗啡来缓解胸痛。
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. make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible;
2. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients;
3. make vapid or deprive of spirit;
4. lessen the momentum or velocity of;
5. become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
6. make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation;
7. convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
This drug will deaden the pain.
这种药可消除痛苦.
Terror blunted her feelings; deaden a sound.
恐怖使她的知觉变得特别生硬; 使声音变弱.
A soft varnish and an insufficient undercoating deaden heavily the sound of a violin.
柔和的清漆和不足防底层的清漆严重减弱小提琴的声音.
To deaden, as to feelings or moral scruples; callous.
使麻木不仁如使感情或道德良知麻木; 无情.
I had shut my eyes, I confused myself on purpose to deaden the pain.
为了减轻痛苦,我闭上双眼, 故意幻想这是幻象.