Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Extremely loud.
- idiom (deafening silence) A silence or lack of response that reveals something significant, such as disapproval or a lack of enthusiasm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, the pugging used to prevent the passage of sound through floors, partitions, and the like. Also called
sound-boarding .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging; sound insulation.
- adjective extremely loud; so loud as to cause deafness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
loud enough to causetemporary orpermanent hearing loss - adjective Very loud
- verb Present participle of
deafen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss
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Examples
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He also has criticized what he calls a deafening silence from the community, police and the national media.
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He also has criticized what he calls a deafening silence from the community, police and the national media.
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Acoustic systems have been implicated in deafening sea life.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Ninety Days of Hell from Decades of Neglect 2010
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Acoustic systems have been implicated in deafening sea life.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Ninety Days of Hell from Decades of Neglect 2010
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` ` Save Our Sonics, '' they replied in deafening unison.
USATODAY.com 2007
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The boos were frickin deafening while he was walking out to the mound – so in true FOX form, when you dont like reality, you alter it, or erase it.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Cheney Loudly Booed During First Pitch 2006
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At last came the word, and a score of sharp cracks leapt in deafening echoes from crag to crag, and a score of mules, with their riders, went down, creating the most dire confusion.
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He recalled the deafening thunder of the drums, the glare and the blood, the moon peering down through the branches like the face of a perverse divinity pale from pride, and the thought that had come to him there, in his sickness and lonely hopelessness -- that while some in a fit of decrepitude and despair might turn to God, others might turn to the oblivion promised by evil.
Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman
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Gutierrez recalls the deafening sound of the earthquake.
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Gutierrez recalls the deafening sound of the earthquake.
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