Deaden

(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'.

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• If I were a Roman Catholic and could deaden my heart, stun it with some great blow, I might become a nun. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• This spring is surrounded its entire length by rubber tubing to deaden vibration. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Some thick old hangings had been nailed up before the windows, to deaden the sound of the shrieks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• She was rarely alone, he pressed upon her like a frost, deadening her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• In many ways we are more defenceless against these deadening habits than the people of Europe. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It had been serviceable in deadening the first shock, without retaining any influence to alarm. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• He and she together, Hermione and Birkin, were people of the same old tradition, the same withered deadening culture. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• As her once elastic walk had become deadened by time, so had her natural pride of life been hindered in its blooming by her necessities. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The many sounds become so deadened that the change is like putting cotton in the ears, or having the head thickly muffled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• But her fingers were in the way and deadened the blow. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They were all three more sharply on the alert, and less deadened by the miserable influences of the place and time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There was a raw scent of chrysanthemums and tube-roses, deadened. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• She was afraid lest she should even become sleepily deadened into forgetfulness of anything beyond the life which was lapping her round with luxury. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Something that deadens, making an endeavour to pass one hand down one side, and confuses, touching his lips. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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