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Deaf   /dɛf/   Listen
Deaf

adjective
1.
Lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
2.
(usually followed by 'to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed.  Synonym: indifferent.
noun
1.
People who have severe hearing impairments.
verb
1.
Make or render deaf.  Synonym: deafen.



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"Deaf" Quotes from Famous Books



... ears of Canada never grow deaf to the plea of widows and orphans and our crippled men for care and support. May the eyes of Canada never be blind to that glorious light which shines upon our young national life from the deeds of those "Who counted not their lives dear unto themselves," ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott
... Commissioner of Health, where one householder and a crowd of witnesses complained of the noise made by a kicking horse in an adjacent stable. The one witness who was not disturbed by the noise, and who lived in the vicinity, was unexpectedly found to be deaf. ...
— Rural Hygiene • Henry N. Ogden
... withdrawn; and later came the intelligence that the Empress Carlotta had gone home to beg assistance from Napoleon, the author of all of her husband's troubles. But the situation forced Napoleon to turn a deaf ear to Carlotta's prayers. The brokenhearted woman besought him on her knees, but his fear of losing an army made all pleadings vain. In fact, as I ascertained by the following cablegram which came into my hands, Napoleon's instructions for the French evacuation were in Mexico ...
— The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Vol. II., Part 5 • P. H. Sheridan
... of the original price arranged between my coolie and myself. For one full hour they argued at a terrible speed as to the rate of exchange in the Szech'wan large and the Yuen-nan small cash, and this was only interrupted when a poor man, deaf and dumb, and of hideous appearance, seeing the foreigner in his contemptible town, rushed in with a carrying pole and felled his grumbling townsman ...
— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle
... not be explained by natural selection, since according to this law a variation in an organ brings about a corresponding variation in entirely different organs (e.g., cats with white fur and blue eyes are also deaf). ...
— The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality • Rudolf Schmid


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