deaden

（使）缓和；（使）减弱

（与to连用）使麻木，使无感觉

deaden

使减弱, 隔阻, 防住

变得如死一般, 失去活力等

deaden

1. make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"

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2. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant"

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3. make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"

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4. lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"

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

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6. make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"

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

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