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deafens

deafens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of deafen.

Meaning of deafen

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

Questions about deafens

What is deafens the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Deafens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of deafen.

Words near deafens in the dictionary

  1. deafening silence
  2. deafening silences
  3. deafeningly
  4. deafeningness
  5. deafenings
  6. deafens
  7. deafer
  8. deafest
  9. deafferenation
  10. deafferent
  11. deafferentate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deafens (page history and authors); deafen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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