deaf
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- IPA: /dɛf/
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- Rhymes: -ɛf
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deaf (comparative deafer, superlative deafest)
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- Not having the faculty of hearing, or only partially able to hear.
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not hearing
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the deaf singular collective noun
- Deaf people considered as a group.
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deaf people considered as a group
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[edit] Old English
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- IPA: /dæːaf/
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Common Germanic *daubhaz, from Indo-European *dheubh- (“‘smoky, foggy, dim’”). Germanic cognates include Old Frisian dāf, Old Saxon dōf (Dutch doof), Old High German toub (German taub), Old Norse daufr (Swedish döv). The IE root is also the source of Greek τυφλός (“‘blind’”).
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dēaf