deaden

verb

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

2. make less lively, intense, or vigorous
impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation

e.g. Terror blunted her feelings
deaden a sound

Synonym: blunt

3. become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active
lose life, force, or vigor

4. make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible

e.g. muffle the message

Synonym: dampendamp

5. lessen the momentum or velocity of

e.g. deaden a ship's headway

6. make vapid or deprive of spirit

e.g. deadened wine

7. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients

e.g. girdle the plant

Synonym: girdle

1. 缓和，减弱（感觉）；降低（声音）
If something deadens a feeling or a sound, it makes it less strong or loud.

e.g. He needs morphine to deaden the pain in his chest...
他需要吗啡来缓解胸痛。
e.g. They managed to deaden the sound on TV every time the alleged victim's name was spoken.
每当提到据称是受害者的人的姓名时，他们都设法调低电视机的声音。

1. 使减弱：deadee 遗像 | deaden 使减弱 | deadening 隔音材料

2. 缓冲：deaden way 停止前进 | deaden 缓冲 | deadening 消去

3.

3. 减弱 消除亮度：dead-drawnwire强拉钢丝 多次拉拔钢丝 | deaden减弱 消除亮度 | deadend紧密封闭