及物动词
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.
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
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