deafen

IPA: dˈɛfʌn

Examples of "deafen" in Sentences

The silence is your canvas, that's your frame, that's what you work on; don't try and deafen it out.
I am also hoping to see acceptance of sound suppressors in the U.S. so we don't have to deafen ourselves or our dogs.
And then I take a deep breath; deafen myself to the whining, blind myself to the mess and gather up my kids and our things.
Two recent headlines tugged at my heartstrings: Could ocean acidification deafen dolphins? and Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies.
As a society, we too often do what I was guilty of in college: in an attempt to protect ourselves, we deafen ourselves to the stories of those who seem "different."
As for the suburban commuters who in their road rage deafen us with their horns and shrieking brakes, clog our streets, pollute our air and regularly kill us, they vote elsewhere.
It was incredible and made me ponder what it would have been like in pre-colonial days when flocks of birds could effectively block the sun out or the sound of hundreds of thousands (more?) birds nesting could deafen a person ...
And why the deafen silence of the normally vocal Republicans remain mute, with no loud attacks on everything the Media Imperial President has done, with no rhetorical shouting points repeated ad nauseum, just taking the high road with a few reasonable discussions over actual policy points?