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Deafening

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss.

    "But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater."

  2. 2
    Very loud. excessive

    "At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans."

Adjective
  1. 1
    loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    pugging countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    The process by which something is deafened. countable, uncountable

    "Film and dance theory offer a productive vocabulary for considering the effects of these mutings and deafenings."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of deafen form-of, gerund, participle, present

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