deafen
英['def(ə)n]
美['dɛfən]
- vt. 使聋；淹没
- vi. 变聋
词态变化
第三人称单数: deafens;过去式: deafened;过去分词: deafened;现在分词: deafening;
英文词源
- deafen (v.)
- 1590s, "to make deaf," from deaf + -en (1). The earlier verb was simply deaf (mid-15c.). For "to become deaf, to grow deaf," Old English had adeafian (intransitive), which survived into Middle English as deave but then took on a transitive sense from mid-14c. and sank from use except in dialects (where it mostly has transitive and figurative senses), leaving English without an intransitive verb here.
双语例句
- 1. This noise will deafen us all!
- 这种喧闹声将使我们什么也听不见!
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 2. DEAFEN A sudden explosion deafened us for a moment.
- 突然的爆炸声使我们耳聋了一会儿.
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