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Answer for the clue "Impaired one's hearing ", 8 letters:
deafened

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Word definitions for deafened in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. caused to hear poorly or not at all

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: deafen )

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
deafened \deafened\ adj. rendered deaf.

Usage examples of deafened.

In here, between stone and water, the shout of the falling river deafened the intruders.

From a distance of a few feet he fired his revolver at the invisible door-lock, and the detonation nearly deafened him, while his bullet caromed harmlessly from a steel plate beneath that porous white substance.

She thought of the soldiers returning, the ones who had been deafened during the war.

The front door completely disintegrated, and the apartment itself seemed to expand as white noise deafened anyone unfortunate enough to be in there.

His ears had been battered and deafened by the racketing of the engine, and only now was his hearing slowly returning to normal.

The marshal at once ordered the cross bowmen to shoot the fellow down, but as they raised their weapons to their shoulder there was a loud explosion that almost deafened them and flame leaped from a strange thing that the Saracen held against his shoulder and pointed at them.

Malcolm had but just entered the bedroom of the latter, when the shriek rent the air close beside, and for a moment deafened them.