Deafening

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Extremely loud.
  • idiom. deafening silence A silence or lack of response that reveals something significant, such as disapproval or a lack of enthusiasm.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss
  • adj. Very loud
  • v. Present participle of deafen.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging; sound insulation.
  • adj. extremely loud; so loud as to cause deafness.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In architecture, the pugging used to prevent the passage of sound through floors, partitions, and the like. Also called sound-boarding.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss
  • Equivalent
    loud   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pugging   
    Verb Stem
    deafen