Deafened

Word DEAFENED
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Hyphenation deafened
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Definitions and meanings of "Deafened"

What do we mean by deafened?

To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently.

To make soundproof.

(sometimes figurative) To stun, as with noise.

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The word "deafened" in example sentences

Even to conversation and acted plays, he gave an inattentive ear, instincts incapable of clear expression deafened him and blinded him; he was Milton’s lion35 rising up, pawing out of the earth, but unlike that lion, stuck half-way. ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)

The gunfire had deafened her, and she could only hear her own ragged breath ringing in her ears. ❋ Unknown (2011)

ETA: Via Neil Gaiman, here's a better photo of me (and him and Frank Wu, who nearly deafened me with his whoops of delight). ❋ Matociquala (2009)

Usually, but not always at night, lit by blue and red flashing strobes, you get deafened by the Fire & Rescue generators as they try and cut people free. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

My protests, which ultimately sounded something like "Only Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld understand me," fell on deafened ears. ❋ Millie Kerr (2011)

Perhaps the outcry over his refusal to worship the condom-god has deafened people to this clear restatement of the Church's belief in the definitive revelation of God in Christ. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One needs a conductor simply because it's nice to know what is actually going on when one is deafened downwind of the trombones. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It was illness that blinded and deafened Helen Keller. ❋ Apollosdtr (2009)

I, for one, stumbled drunkenly through the final miles, deafened, seeing only the stony path ahead. ❋ Christina Binkley (2011)

As they came down to machine gun us, they came so close in their dive that they used to put their fingers up to us as they pulled out of the dive, on top of this they had a scaring device fitted to their planes, as they dived they developed a terrifying scream which almost deafened you. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sometimes they were too stunned and deafened and dazed to do anything but surrender, or rather, try to do so. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We went round Belgravia and there has been such a howl ever since that it has completely deafened us ... ❋ Unknown (2011)

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