deadening / ˈdɛd n ɪŋ /

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deadening 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a device or material employed to deaden or render dull.
  2. a device or material preventing the transmission of sound.
  3. a woodland in which the trees are killed by girdling prior to being cleared.

deadening 近义词

v. 动词 verb

diminish, muffle, quiet

更多deadening例句

  1. Its recurring phrase is now the deadening, argument-stifling “As a mom,” cited frequently by Jenny McCarthy and Sherri Shepherd.
  2. Hired as a mechanic, he would soon find himself behind the wheel, yet “he found oval racing a deadening merry-go-round.”
  3. Yes, many of those jobs are poorly paid and deadening, agreed and acknowledged.
  4. Never has there been a religion more depressing, more hopeless, more deadening to all initiative.
  5. And in a few minutes Paul heard his father's heavy steps go thudding over the deadening snow.
  6. Missionaries in foreign-mission lands speak much of the peculiar, deadening, moral atmosphere there.
  7. Nothing is more deadening and more commonplace than this peculiar form of wit, when it becomes a habit or offers itself in a mass.
  8. Night and the March moon awake the winter-dormant wilderness from the white man's deadening spell.