deafen

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: deaf=en

OXFORD DICTIONARY

deafen, v.tr.
1 (often as deafening adj.) overpower with sound.
2 deprive of hearing by noise, esp. temporarily.

Derivative

deafeningly adv.

THESAURUS

deafen

awake the dead, baffle, blast, blast the ear, boom, crash, crescendo, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, din, dull, fill the air, muffle, mute, peal, rattle the windows, rend the air, rend the ears, resound, ring, rise, rock the sky, soft-pedal, soften, split the eardrums, split the ears, startle the echoes, stop, stun, subdue, surge, swell, thunder, tone down

ROGET THESAURUS

deafen

Loudness

VB be loud, peal, swell, clang, boom, thunder, blare, fulminate, roar, resound, speak up, shout, bellow, rend the air, rend the skies, fill the air, din in the ear, ring in the ear, thunder in the ear, pierce the ears, split the ears, rend the ears, split the head, deafen, stun, faire le diable a quatre, make one's windows shake, rattle the windows, awaken the echoes, startle the echoes, wake the dead.

Deafness

VB be deaf, have no ear, shut one's ears, stop one's ears, close one's ears, turn a deaf ear to, render deaf, stun, deafen.