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deadening 音標拼音: [d'ɛdənɪŋ] [d'ɛdnɪŋ] n. 隔音材料 隔音材料 deadening adj 1: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; " a boring evening with uninteresting people"; " the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; " a dull play"; " his competent but dull performance"; " a ho- hum speaker who couldn' t capture their attention"; " what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; " tedious days on the train"; " the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; " other people' s dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [ synonym: { boring}, { deadening}, { dull}, { ho- hum}, { irksome}, { slow}, { tedious}, { tiresome}, { wearisome}] n 1: the act of making something futile and useless ( as by routine) [ synonym: { stultification}, { constipation}, { impairment}, { deadening}] deadening \ dead" en* ing\ adj. [ p. pr. of verb { deaden}[ 3].] Rendering less lively, intense, or vigorous; as, the deadening effect of some routine tasks. [ WordNet 1. 5] 2. So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; as, the deadening effect of some routine tasks. Syn: boring, dreary, ho- hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome. [ WordNet 1. 5]
Deaden \ Dead" en\ ( d[ e^] d"' n), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Deadened} ( d[ e^] d"' nd); p. pr. & vb. n. { Deadening}.] [ From { Dead}; cf. AS. d? dan to kill, put to death. See { Dead}, a.] 1. To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound. [ 1913 Webster] As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship' s headway. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To render impervious to sound, as a wall or floor; to deafen. [ Webster 1913 Suppl.]
deadening \ dead" en* ing\ n. The act of making something futile and useless ( as by routine). Syn: stultification, impairment. [ WordNet 1. 5] 98 Moby Thesaurus words for " deadening": abatement, abating, allaying, allayment, alleviating, alleviation, alleviative, analgesia, analgesic, anesthesia, anesthetic, anesthetizing, anodyne, appeasement, assuagement, assuaging, assuasive, attenuation, attrition, balmy, balsamic, benumbing, blunting, calming, cathartic, chastening, cleansing, cushioning, dampening, damping, debilitation, demulcent, demulsion, devitalization, dilution, diminishing, diminishment, diminution, dulcification, dulling, ease, easement, easing, effemination, emollient, enervation, enfeeblement, evisceration, exhaustion, extenuation, falling- off, fatigue, hushing, inanition, languishment, leniency, lenitive, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, loosening, lulling, mitigating, mitigation, mitigative, modulation, mollification, narcotic, numbing, pacification, pain- killing, palliation, palliative, purgative, quietening, quieting, reducing, reduction, relaxation, relaxing, relief, relieving, remedial, remedy, remission, salving, slackening, softening, soothing, stunning, stupefying, subduement, subduing, tempering, thinning, tranquilization, weakening
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