deafen
verb (used with object)
to make deaf.
had deafened
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past perfectof deafen.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The blow had deafened him; he could not hear the questions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Cat was shouting orders, but the noise had deafened them all.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
Yet before he had reached the group a third discharge had deafened them, and they saw with their own eyes two spots of white sky drilled through the second of the unhappy Herbert's high hats.
From Manalive by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Suddenly there rang loudly in her ears the question to which she had deafened herself with such crucifying effort—“What if Ariadne should die?”
From The Squirrel-Cage by John Alanzo Williams
So I answered them in French, in a voice that thundered in my head, that the explosion had deafened me and I could not hear a word they said.
From Carette of Sark by John Oxenham
