deafen

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently. transitive
    — The head injury deafened her for life.
  2. To make soundproof. transitive
    — to deafen a wall or a floor
  3. To stun, as with noise. dialectal,figuratively,rare,sometimes,transitive
    — Racine left the ground […] deafened, dazzled and tired to death.

词形变化

deafens present,singular,third-person deafening participle,present deafened participle,past deafened past

词汇关系

衍生词
bedeafen deafener undeafen undeafened

词源

From deaf + -en (verbal suffix). Compare Middle English deven, deaven (“to make deaf”), Old English ādēafian (“to deafen”) and Old English ādȳfan, Dutch verdoven (“to stupefy, deafen”), German betäuben (“to stun, stupefy, deafen”).
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