Deafened
['defənd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Deafen
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Examples
- See you not the thunderbolt fall, and are deafened by the shout of heaven that follows its descent? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was hammering now again and his ears were deafened by the muzzle blast. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This cabinet dazzled me, it was so full of light: it deafened me, it was clamorous with voices: it stifled me, it was so hot, choking, thronged. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Deafened by the noise, stifled, choked, and blinded by the dust, they hid their faces and stood rooted to the spot. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She heard his words in her unconscious self, CONSCIOUSLY she was as if deafened, she paid no heed to them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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