Crossword clues for deafen
deafen
- Be too loud
- Play too loud, perhaps
- Overwhelm with clamor
- Overwhelm aurally
- Overpower with noise
- Make really uncomfortable, in a way
- Make deaf
- Cause hearing loss
- Bombard with sound
- Block hearing
- Blast with noise
- Blast the eardrums of
- Blast one's eardrums
- Be way too loud for
- Be unbearably loud
- Assault with too many decibels
- What thunder may do
- Overwhelm with sound
- Pierce the ears of
- Overwhelm with noise
- Stun with sound
- Pound with sound
- Stun with noise
- Daze with noise
- Cause auricular malfunction
- Wound with sound
- Make unable to hear
- Cause to lose hearing
- Be too loud for
- Overwhelm by sound
- Make soundproof
- Bombard with noise
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deafen \Deaf"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deafened; p. pr. & vb. n. Deafening.] [From Deaf.]
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To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
Deafened and stunned with their promiscuous cries.
--Addison. (Arch.) To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "to make deaf," from deaf + -en (1). The earlier verb was simply deaf (mid-15c.). For "to become deaf, to grow deaf," Old English had adeafian (intransitive), which survived into Middle English as deave but then took on a transitive sense from mid-14c. and sank from use except in dialects (where it mostly has transitive and figurative senses), leaving English without an intransitive verb here.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently 2 To make soundproof
WordNet
v. be unbearably loud; "a deafening noise"
make or render deaf; "a deafening noise" [syn: deaf]
make soundproof; "deafen a room"
Usage examples of "deafen".
Jefferson fired, the blast deafening him, the backsplash of blood hot on his face and hands.
His lordship quelled the riot without the smallest difficulty, ordering Felix back to the sofa, requesting Jessamy to call off the Baluchistan hound, and adding that when he felt a desire to be deafened by a couple of gabble-mongers he would inform them of it.
Overhead, the Bofors began an intermittent and deafening hack: two explosions every second.
Once, before the rain thickened to a deafening curtain that blotted The Dancing Cartman from sight.
A deafening bray shattered the dark, and the forest erupted in front of him with a clishmaclaver of crashing and startled shouts.
I was awakened with a start by cries of alarm, and scarce were my eyes opened, nor had I yet sufficiently collected my wits to quite realize where I was, when a fusillade of shots rang out, reverberating through the subterranean corridors in a series of deafening echoes.
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.
It seems that the great lightning flash and deafening explosion which followed the Federal Hill occurrence were even more tremendous farther east, where a burst of the singular foetor was likewise noticed.
The blast of the Marlin was deafening in the confines of the tunnel, and Geronimo was aware of a ringing in his ears as he levered his second round into the chamber.