deafen
Example Sentences
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When one performer delivered a few lines in a deafening shout, she said, “Remember ... if you are screaming, pull that mike away.”
From Los Angeles Times
In another era of the timeless Loyola-Mira Costa rivalry, of clean-shaven Cubs walking in wearing suits and ties and Mustangs entering with mustaches and Hawaiian shirts, that deafening first-set spike might’ve warranted a skirmish.
From Los Angeles Times
Between the pounding bass and Beatlemania screams, the atmosphere was deafening.
From Los Angeles Times
She praised the acclaimed and famously deafening band for their "sense of absolute chaos, and you feel that your ears are falling off, but then there's this real delicate quality to the lyrics".
From BBC
If the Republican Party adopted, for obvious monetary reasons, a policy comparably hostile to minorities’ preferences and interests, progressives’ cries of “Racism!” would be deafening.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.