Definition of "deafened" [deafened]

• Simple past tense and past participle of deafen. (verb)

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• "Even to conversation and acted plays, he gave an inattentive ear, instincts incapable of clear expression deafened him and blinded him; he was Milton’s lion35 rising up, pawing out of the earth, but unlike that lion, stuck half-way."
• "It was illness that blinded and deafened Helen Keller."
• "ETA: Via Neil Gaiman, here's a better photo of me (and him and Frank Wu, who nearly deafened me with his whoops of delight)."