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单词 deaden
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
dead•en /ˈdɛdən/USA pronunciation   v. [ ~ + obj]
  1. to make less sensitive, intense, strong, or effective:pills to deaden pain.
  2. to make dull or lifeless:The criticism deadened my enthusiasm.
dead•en•ing, adj. 

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
dead•en  (ded′n),USA pronunciation v.t. 
  1. to make less sensitive, active, energetic, or forcible;
    weaken:to deaden sound;to deaden the senses;to deaden the force of a blow.
  2. to lessen the velocity of;
    retard:to deaden the headway of a ship.
  3. to make impervious to sound, as a floor.

v.i. 
  1. to become dead.
  • dead + -en1 1655–65
dead′en•er, n. 
    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged . blunt, diminish, lessen, numb, dull.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
deaden /ˈdɛdən/ vb
  1. to make or become less sensitive, intense, lively, etc; damp or be damped down; dull
  2. (transitive) to make acoustically less resonant: he deadened the room with heavy curtains

ˈdeadening adj
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