音标:['tʃeɪs(ə)n] ;
vt.
惩罚,惩戒;责罚;整治;磨炼:
She has been chastened by all kinds of experiences in life.
她一生中经历了各种各样的磨难。
抑制,遏制,节制(感情、欲望等);使缓和:
Age has chastened his violent temper.
年龄缓和了他的暴躁脾气。
使(文章等)简洁朴实;洗练,精练:
His style was chastened by study of great writers.
他的文笔因研究了伟大作家的作品而变得洗练。
近义词:
punish

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Bleckede
Bottni's operation
bronchial ciliated columnar epithelial cell
change horses
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classware
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colour doppler
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cross that bridge when one gets to it
crowd surfing
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diboron
dimuon event
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eat sb for breakfast
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extein
farid
feezes
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from hell to breakfast
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Gullstrand's law
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interhalogen compound
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land survey
Leos
Ligusticum sinense
line formation
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men's rooms
metopolophium euryae
metrorrhagic
misthrown
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noctilionid
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Ojuelaite
P.R.F.
pantisocracy
phlebothrombosis of leg
photoreaction
positive sensitizer
quadrupolar-seam coil
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rough patch
San Carlos del Zulia
SAR service
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sedyl
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singular value decomposition of image matrix
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Trinkhalle
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ungilt
upstream chamber
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