transcription, транскрипция: [ defən ]
( deafens, deafening, deafened)
1.
If a noise deafens you, it is so loud that you cannot hear anything else at the same time.
The noise of the typewriters deafened her.
VERB : V n
2.
If you are deafened by something, you are made deaf by it, or are unable to hear for some time.
He was deafened by the noise from the gun.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed
3.
see also deafening