deafening

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛfənɪŋ(ɡ)/

Adjective

deafening (comparative more deafening, superlative most deafening)

1. Loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss.
2. Very loud.
   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• deafening silence

Related terms

• deaf
• deafen

Translations

loud enough to cause hearing loss

• Breton: bouzarus (br)
• Bulgarian: оглушителен (bg) (oglušitelen)
• Catalan: ensordidor
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 震耳欲聋（的）

• Czech: ohlušující
• Danish: øredøvende
• Finnish: korviahuumaava, korviasärkevä
• French: assourdissant (fr) m
• German: ohrenbetäubend (de), ohrenzerreißend
• Hebrew: מחריש אוזניים (makhrísh oznáyim)
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• Italian: assordante (it)
• Maori: hoihoi, turituri
• Norman: êtourdissant
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: øredøvende

• Portuguese: ensurdecedor
• Romanian: asurzitor (ro)
• Russian: оглушительный (ru) (oglušitelʹnyj), оглушающий (ru) (oglušajuščij)
• Serbo-Croatian: zaglušujući m
• Spanish: ensordecedor (es) m

Verb

deafening

1. present participle of deafen

Noun

deafening (countable and uncountable, plural deafenings)

1. (architecture) pugging
2. The process by which something is deafened.
   • 2012, Gary Taylor, ‎Trish Thomas Henley, The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton (page 338)

     Film and dance theory offer a productive vocabulary for considering the effects of these mutings and deafenings.