deafen

英式音标：deafen怎么读

美式音标：deafen怎么读

词汇归类： TEM4,CET6,低频词,扩展词汇

近义词： deaf,stun,with,the,ears,din,make,noise,split

deafen词义

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vt. 使聋；淹没vi. 变聋

第三人称单数: deafens;过去式: deafened;过去分词: deafened;现在分词: deafening;

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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.

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