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comparative more deafening, superlative most deafening
Loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss. quotations examples
But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43
(hyperbolic) Very loud. quotations examples
At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.
2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
present participle and gerund of deafen examples
countable and uncountable, plural deafenings
(architecture) pugging examples
The process by which something is deafened. quotations examples
Film and dance theory offer a productive vocabulary for considering the effects of these mutings and deafenings.
2012, Gary Taylor, Trish Thomas Henley, The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton, page 338