deaden
vt. 抑制 (感情),緩和 (疼痛); 減弱 (聲音)
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...
他需要嗎啡來緩解胸痛。
They managed to deaden the sound on TV every time the alleged victim's name was spoken.
每當提到據稱是受害者的人的姓名時,他們都設法調低電視機的聲音。
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.
這種藥可消除痛苦.
Terror blunted her feelings; deaden a sound.
恐怖使她的知覺變得特別生硬; 使聲音變弱.
A soft varnish and an insufficient undercoating deaden heavily the sound of a violin.
柔和的清漆和不足防底層的清漆嚴重減弱小提琴的聲音.
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; 無情.
I had shut my eyes, I confused myself on purpose to deaden the pain.
為了減輕痛苦,我閉上雙眼, 故意幻想這是幻象.