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"deaf to her warnings"adjective(usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed
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"a deafening noise"verbmake or render deaf
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adjectivelacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part
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"many of the deaf use sign language"nounpeople who have severe hearing impairmentstype of:
Definition that contains deaf
- sign used of the language of the deaf
- dumb unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
- signed used of the language of the deaf
- silent unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
- deaf make or render deaf
- mute a deaf person who is unable to speak
- mute unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
- keller United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968)
- acoustic a remedy for hearing loss or deafness
- oxymoron conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')