deafen
英['def(?)n]
美['d?f?n]
- vt. 使聾；淹沒
- vi. 變聾
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?deafens;過去式:?deafened;過去分詞:?deafened;現在分詞:?deafening;
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. This noise will deafen us all!
- 這種喧鬧聲將使我們什么也聽不見!
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 2. DEAFEN A sudden explosion deafened us for a moment.
- 突然的爆炸聲使我們耳聾了一會兒.
來自互聯網