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UK
/dˈɛf/
]
[ US /ˈdɛf/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛf/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part
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(usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed
deaf to her warnings
NOUN
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people who have severe hearing impairments
many of the deaf use sign language
VERB
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make or render deaf
a deafening noise
a deafening noise
How To Use deaf In A Sentence
- And the moral murder of my child is to be my punishment for daring to turn a deaf ear to the indign passion of a brute! The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
- I had given my replacement my helmet, and I sat on the bench seat deaf and dumb.
- She turned a deaf ear to our warnings and got lost.
- I had given my replacement my helmet, and I sat on the bench seat deaf and dumb.
- It sounded like a dull roar at first, but now it was nearly deafening.
- The air was choked with smoke and fury, the noise deafening, the attacking fierce. Times, Sunday Times
- One of the silly arguments of those deafening poorly designed electronic voting machines is that there's never been any evidence that they miscount votes.
- And I'm bound to say that my entreaties did not fall on deaf ears.
- Recent research on deaf children has produced some interesting findings about their speech.
- But the type of deafness I have inherited is associated at first with excessive along with diminished hearing, hypo - and hyperacusis combined. Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 3
