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Deaf   /dɛf/   Listen
Deaf

adjective
1.
Lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
2.
(usually followed by 'to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed.  Synonym: indifferent.
noun
1.
People who have severe hearing impairments.
verb
1.
Make or render deaf.  Synonym: deafen.



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"Deaf" Quotes from Famous Books



... grievously offended me, that I cannot forgive him, nor that other man, Malagigi, the magician. These two shall never live in my kingdom again. If I catch them, I will certainly have them hanged. But tell me, pilgrim, who is that man who stands beside you?" "He is deaf, dumb, and blind," said Malagigi. Then the king said again, "Give me to drink of your cup, to take away my sins." Malagigi answered, "My lord king, here is my poor brother, who for fifty days has not heard, spoken, nor seen. This misfortune befell him in a house where we found shelter, and the ...
— The Junior Classics, V4 • Willam Patten (Editor)

... reverently and thankfully The mighty wonder own! The deaf can hear, the blind may see, The work ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858 • Various

... Bobus were always ready to push and pull her through, and to snub Janet for quizzing her; but Jessie was pretty enough to have plenty of such homage at her command, and not specially to prefer that of her cousins, so that it cost her little to turn a deaf ear to all ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge

... falsely, mistook natural phenomena for supernatural miracles. What more easy than to suppose people dead when they were not, and who were merely recovered from a swoon or trance? than to imagine the blind, deaf, or dumb to be miraculously healed, when in fact they were cured by medical skill? than to fancy the blaze of a flambeau to be a star, and to shape thunder into articulate speech, and so on? Christ was no miracle-worker, but he was ...
— The Eclipse of Faith - Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic • Henry Rogers

... moss flower from its dizzy shelf, The ouzel, shaking forth its spray of song, The glacial runlet, tinkling its clear bell, The rose-of-morn, abloom on snowy heights— Each sent by him a jewel-word of cheer. Blind eyes he opened and deaf ...
— Alaska Days with John Muir • Samual Hall Young


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