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/dˈɛfən/ Listen

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deafen" Quotes from Famous Books

... shout loud enough to deafen all Saint Dominic's. The ball was flying fifty feet up in the air, and Raleigh was slowly walking, bat in hand, back to the tent he had only a ...

— The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's - A School Story • Talbot Baines Reed

... talk most, who have the least to say; go to Will's, and you'll hardly hear the Great Wycherley speak two Sentences in a quarter of an Hour, whilst Blatero, Hamilus, Turpinus; and twenty more egregious Coxcombs, deafen the Company with ...

— The Present State of Wit (1711) - In A Letter To A Friend In The Country • John Gay

... out of range of it, but we could not hide from the tremble of the ground—the surface of the earth at that place shook and quivered from the terrible concussion of the artillery. The roar was enough to deafen one, and inspire the dread that no one would be left alive and unhurt. Generally however, the noise is a considerable part of such a bombardment. Probably comparatively slight damage was done by it, until our artillery opened on the advancing ...

— Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 • Charles Augustus Fuller

... heard, such that the women screamed and covered their ears; it was the ex-theological student blowing with all the strength of his lungs on the tambuli, or carabao horn. Laughter and cheerfulness returned while tear-dimmed eyes brightened. "Are you trying to deafen us, you heretic?" ...

— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

... scaring you out of sweet dreams in the winter, while it's dark, and you get up and dress in the cold and heat a little coffee over a lamp and beat it for the factory,—and stand on your feet all morning, in a noise that would deafen you, feeding a thing you ain't got no interest in? It don't never need no rest! By eleven o'clock you think you're all in, that the morning'll never end, but at noon you get a twenty five cent feed that lasts you until about five ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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