What is "deafens"

Usage examples of "deafens".

Let the machines crash their sixty-eight times a minute, but remember each crash that deafens you is that much nearer the evening and me!

But Salius enters, and, exclaiming loud For justice, deafens and disturbs the crowd.

On the part of the selfish, prejudices, the darkness of the education of wealth, appetite increasing through intoxication, a stupefaction of prosperity which deafens, a dread of suffering which, with some, is carried even to aversion for sufferers, an implacable satisfaction, the me so puffed up that it closes the soul.

Fear that will not have light nor sound, that will not bear with reason, that deafens and darkens and overwhelms.