deafening

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English

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The launch of a Saturn V rocket is deafeningly loud.

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Adjective

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deafening (comparative more deafening, superlative most deafening)

  1. Loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss.
    • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
      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.
  2. (hyperbolic) 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.

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Verb

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deafening

  1. present participle and gerund of deafen

Noun

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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.

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