0 If a very loud noise deafens you, it makes you deaf, or makes you temporarily unable to hear the other sounds near you:
The explosion permanently deafened her in her right ear.
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, the noise will be deafening.
The chain cable rattles out, the noise is deafening and the whole ship is covered in a cloud of dust and sparks.
Whatever the scene then being enacted, it was suddenly closed, and as the tourists seated themselves, the orchestra began a deafening clatter of gongs.
The deafening clamor that greets the teacher is only a prelude of what will follow.
The sound is a sudden, unexpected, and deafening collision between two orders of reality and perception.
But not to worry: you hear them, all right - unless you went to graduate school and learned laboriously to deafen yourself.
Cochlear implant use by prelingually deafened children : the influences of age at implant and length of device use.
The present paper extends the economic analysis in the earlier report, including a more comprehensive costing and quality-of-life assessment, sensitivity analysis, and consideration of partially deafened adults.
