deadening

/ded-n-ing/US // ˈdɛd n ɪŋ //

阻隔性,阻燃性,阻燃,阻隔

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a device or material employed to deaden or render dull.
- : a device or material preventing the transmission of sound.
- : a woodland in which the trees are killed by girdling prior to being cleared.

verbdiminish, muffle, quiet

Forms: deadenings

Synonyms

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

/ded-n-ing/US // ˈdɛd n ɪŋ //

阻隔性,阻燃性,阻燃,阻隔

n.名词 noun

1
- : a device or material employed to deaden or render dull.
- : a device or material preventing the transmission of sound.
- : a woodland in which the trees are killed by girdling prior to being cleared.

verbdiminish, muffle, quiet

Forms: deadenings

Synonyms

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