deafened

Verb

deafen (third-person singular simple present deafens, present participle deafening, simple past and past participle deafened)

1. (transitive) To make deaf, either temporarily or permanently.
   • The head injury deafened her for life.
2. (transitive) To make soundproof.
   • to deafen a wall or a floor
3. (dialectal, figuratively, rare, sometimes, transitive) To stun, as with noise.
   • Racine left the ground […] deafened, dazzled and tired to death.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC