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Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.  1993.
 
deaf, deafened (adjs.)
 
 
If your hearing is permanently impaired, you are deaf, or at least your hearing is imperfect; if something has impaired it temporarily, you’ve been deafened by that something, as with the loud noise of jet engines, which can deafen anyone within earshot. See DUMB.  1
 
 
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