Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rendered deaf.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
deafen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective caused to hear poorly or not at all
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Examples
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Even to conversation and acted plays, he gave an inattentive ear, instincts incapable of clear expression deafened him and blinded him; he was Milton’s lion35 rising up, pawing out of the earth, but unlike that lion, stuck half-way.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Even to conversation and acted plays, he gave an inattentive ear, instincts incapable of clear expression deafened him and blinded him; he was Milton’s lion35 rising up, pawing out of the earth, but unlike that lion, stuck half-way.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Even to conversation and acted plays, he gave an inattentive ear, instincts incapable of clear expression deafened him and blinded him; he was Milton’s lion35 rising up, pawing out of the earth, but unlike that lion, stuck half-way.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Even to conversation and acted plays, he gave an inattentive ear, instincts incapable of clear expression deafened him and blinded him; he was Milton’s lion35 rising up, pawing out of the earth, but unlike that lion, stuck half-way.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Even to conversation and acted plays, he gave an inattentive ear, instincts incapable of clear expression deafened him and blinded him; he was Milton’s lion35 rising up, pawing out of the earth, but unlike that lion, stuck half-way.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Even to conversation and acted plays, he gave an inattentive ear, instincts incapable of clear expression deafened him and blinded him; he was Milton’s lion35 rising up, pawing out of the earth, but unlike that lion, stuck half-way.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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It was illness that blinded and deafened Helen Keller.
Apollo's Daughter :: June 2nd, 2009 apollosdtr 2009
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ETA: Via Neil Gaiman, here's a better photo of me (and him and Frank Wu, who nearly deafened me with his whoops of delight).
i need not to need matociquala 2009
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My protests, which ultimately sounded something like "Only Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld understand me," fell on deafened ears.
Millie Kerr: The Little Writer Who Couldn't Spell: 30 Years of Bizarre Storytelling Millie Kerr 2011
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It was illness that blinded and deafened Helen Keller.
Apollo's Daughter :: Touchy subjects 2: Abortion apollosdtr 2009
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