0 past simple and past participle of deafen
1 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.
Disorders of hearing and balance tile systems although, more recently, cochlear implant technology has become available for the totally deafened and age per se is not a contraindication.
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.
They tell me that they are woken up by it at night and deafened by it by day.
Some are profoundly deaf; others are deafened; others are hard of hearing.
I think he probably means that we shall be deafened, does he not?
Well, they do not intend to be deafened by the volume of sound.
We were totally deafened by one guy with two massive amplifiers, singing drivel.