deaden
英['ded(?)n]
美['d?dn]
- vt. 使減弱；使麻木；隔阻
- vi. 變得如死一般；失去活力
英英釋意
- 1. make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible;
- "muffle the message"
- 2. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients;
- "girdle the plant"
- 3. make vapid or deprive of spirit;
- "deadened wine"
- 4. lessen the momentum or velocity of;
- "deaden a ship's headway"
- 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;
- "Terror blunted her feelings"
- "deaden a sound"
- 7. convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil