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Deafened

Definition: Deafened

Deafened

Adjective

1. Caused to hear poorly or not at all.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deafened" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

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Crosswords: Deafened

Etymologies containing "deafened": Deafen. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Deafened

DomainTitle

Books

  • Deafened People: Adjustment and Support (reference)

  • Hearing Rehabilitation for Deafened Adults: A Psychosocial Approach (reference)

  • Life After Deafness: A Resource Book for Late Deafened Adults (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Deafened

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

It did not reach the two combatants, absorbed and deafened by each other, and mingling their breath in the contest.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Deafened

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Cochlear implantation has a profound impact on hearing and speech perception in postlingually deafened adults. (references)

Ironically, such individuals often have poorer speech perception with hearing aids than do more severely deafened persons who use implants. (references)

Such information is crucial to understanding and enhancing the performance of implanted prelingually deafened children and may help define optimal age for implantation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Deafened

"Deafened" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 62.90% of the time. "Deafened" is used about 62 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)62.9%3955,036
Lexical Verb (past tense)19.35%12101,599
Adjective (general or positive)16.13%10111,207
Noun (proper)1.61%1339,140
                    Total100.00%62N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Deafened

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

deafened

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Deafened

Language Translations for "deafened"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

doevbleven. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

doof geworden. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kuuroutunut. (various references)

   

French

  

assourdi. (various references)

   

German

  

ertaubt, betäubte (anesthetized, doped, drugged, intoxicated, numbed, stunned, stupefied, torpidly). (various references)

   

Italian

  

reso sordo. (various references)

   

Manx

  

jeant bouyr, bouyrit. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eafenedday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

aturdido (bewildered, muzzy, stunned). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

оглушать оглушенный. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Deafened

Derivations

Words ending with "deafened": bedeafened. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Deafened" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Debaene, defenced, Ndoffene. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Deafened

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-f-n"

-2 letters: deaden, deafen, deaned, defend, fended, needed.

-3 letters: ended, faded.

-4 letters: dead, deaf, dean, deed, dene, fade, fane, feed, fend, need.

-5 letters: add, and, ane, dad, dee, den, end, fad, fan, fed, fee, fen, nae, nee.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-f-n"
 

+2 letters: bedeafened, defendable, freehanded, undefeated.

 

+4 letters: confederated, freehandedly, nonfederated.

 

+5 letters: decaffeinated, defenestrated, fatheadedness, schadenfreude.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Deafened


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 61 66 65 6E 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .    .-    ..-.    .    -.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 01100001 01100110 01100101 01101110 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#97 &#102 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0061 0066 0065 006E 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3871677271807170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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