deafening
IPA: dˈɛfʌnɪŋ
noun
- (architecture) pugging
- The process by which something is deafened.
adjective
- Loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss.
- (hyperbolic) Very loud.
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Examples of "deafening" in Sentences
- Gutierrez recalls the deafening sound of the earthquake.
- ` ` Save Our Sonics, '' they replied in deafening unison.
- Acoustic systems have been implicated in deafening sea life.
- He also has criticized what he calls a deafening silence from the community, police and the national media.
- The boos were frickin deafening while he was walking out to the mound – so in true FOX form, when you dont like reality, you alter it, or erase it.
- At last came the word, and a score of sharp cracks leapt in deafening echoes from crag to crag, and a score of mules, with their riders, went down, creating the most dire confusion.
- He recalled the deafening thunder of the drums, the glare and the blood, the moon peering down through the branches like the face of a perverse divinity pale from pride, and the thought that had come to him there, in his sickness and lonely hopelessness -- that while some in a fit of decrepitude and despair might turn to God, others might turn to the oblivion promised by evil.
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