deafen

Silence helps them to continue depriving their people of opportunities…the silence is so loud that it might deafen society.

He told Barb that a mortar landed close enough to temporarily deafen him.

He cannot hear us up there; and, by the belt of Ashur, the king's voice raised in anger is enough to deafen a man in both ears!

Trembling she took shelter inside the open stable door, her heart beating so hard it seemed to deafen her.

Them racketin's would deafen the saints themselves, so they would.

The noise of the discharge is an evil, it ought to be made to do work, not deafen.

Will you give me my cue—it is of no use to ask him when we are to deafen you.