deafen
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
Definition of deafen
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently.
“The head injury deafened her for life.”
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verb
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(transitive)To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently.
“The head injury deafened her for life.”
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(transitive)To make soundproof.
“to deafen a wall or a floor”
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(dialectal, figuratively, rare, sometimes, transitive)To stun, as with noise.
“Racine left the ground […] deafened, dazzled and tired to death.”
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Etymology
From deaf + -en (verbal suffix), compare Middle English deven, deaven (“to make deaf”), Old English ādēafian (“to deafen”), Dutch verdoven (“to stupefy, deafen”), German betäuben (“to stun, stupefy, deafen”).
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