Deaden

['ded(ə)n] or ['dɛdn]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil.

(verb.) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; 'Terror blunted her feelings'; 'deaden a sound'.

(verb.) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor.

(verb.) lessen the momentum or velocity of; 'deaden a ship's headway'.

(verb.) make vapid or deprive of spirit; 'deadened wine'.

哈迪編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.

(a.) To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.

(a.) To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.

(a.) To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.

手打:米格尔

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Weaken, impair, dull, damp, dampen.[2]. Blunt, benumb, paralyze, obtund, hebetate, make insensible.

琼整理

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Benumb, paralyze, blunt, damp, subdue

ANT:Sharpen, quicken, enliven

校對:路易丝