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deafened

Meaning

of Deafen

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Annoyed?” said Sophie. "Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me? Diana Wynne Jones

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth. Ernst Toller

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice. William Hazlitt

Postlingually deafened individual who becomes deaf after having acquired language. Source: Internet

Prelingually deafened individual who is either born deaf or who lost his or her hearing early in childhood, before acquiring language. Source: Internet

When asked to elaborate, Baker replied: "Oh, he shouted at me on stage, he turned his bass up so loud that he deafened me on the first gig. Source: Internet

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