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deafening

adj
/ˈdɛfənɪŋ(ɡ)/UK

Definitions

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

  2. Very loud.

    • 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.

  3. present participle and gerund of deafen

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. pugging

    2. The process by which something is deafened.

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

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Derived

deafeningly, deafeningness, deafening silence

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for deafening. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA