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