deafen
英 ['def(ə)n]
美 ['dɛfən]
- vt. 耳を聞こえなくする；溺れさせる
- vi. 耳を聞こえなくする
英語の語源
- 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.
例文
- 1. This noise will deafen us all！
- この騒々しい音は私たちに何も聞こえない！
- 2. DEAFEN A sudden explosion deafene d us for a moment.
- 突然の爆発音でしばらく耳が聞こえなかった。
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