v. Simple past tense and past participle of deafen.
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adj. rendered deaf.
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adj. caused to hear poorly or not at all
Word Usage
"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."