deafened
IPA: dˈɛfʌnd
adjective
- caused to hear poorly or not at all
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Examples of "deafened" in Sentences
- It was illness that blinded and deafened Helen Keller.
- 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).
- My protests, which ultimately sounded something like "Only Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld understand me," fell on deafened ears.
- 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.