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verb

Deafen v. t. (past & past part. deafened; pres. part. deafening)

To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly. "Deafened and stunned with their promiscuous cries."

(Arch.) To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.

adjective

deafened adj. Rendered deaf.

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Etymology of 'Deafened'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... now advanced, to open the business of the day by firing into a field of tirailleurs. The French were not idle at this time; they advanced in masses—cavalry and infantry; while a roar of cannon, that almost deafened every ear, ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume 13, No. 359, Saturday, March 7, 1829. • Various

... that, generally in the evening, when the concert was held in a hall which must have contained two thousand people, even when all seated at little tables, and where the band would have deafened you if the hall had not been so large. Here Jimmie and the waitress prevailed upon us to taste the most inhuman dishes with names a yard long, which the maid declared we ...

— Abroad with the Jimmies • Lilian Bell

... deck; and here and there some old salt of a captain might be seen squinting along his gun, as if impatient to begin. A silence like that of a deserted church reigned throughout the ship. Had one been on board her intended adversary, at that same instant, be would have been deafened by the clamour, and confused with the hurried and disorderly manner in which preparations that were long before completed on board the British, were still in progress on board the Frenchman. Four years earlier, ...

— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper

... home, he along with all the guests feasted his eyes on the illuminations and drank wine with them, Music and singing deafened the ear. Embroidered fineries were everywhere visible. For his way of seeking amusement was unlike that customary in this ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin

... in the year 1980 the President standing in this place will look back on a decade in which 70 percent of our people lived in metropolitan areas choked by traffic, suffocated by smog, poisoned by water, deafened by noise, ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Richard Nixon • Richard Nixon

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