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earsplitting

English

Etymology

ear +? splitting

Adjective

earsplitting (comparative more earsplitting, superlative most earsplitting)

  1. Extremely loud, painfully loud.

Translations

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deafening

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?d?f?n??(?)/

Adjective

deafening (comparative more deafening, superlative most deafening)

  1. Loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss.
  2. (hyperbolic) Very loud.

Derived terms

  • deafening silence

Related terms

  • deaf
  • deafen

Translations

Verb

deafening

  1. present participle of deafen

Noun

deafening (countable and uncountable, plural deafenings)

  1. (architecture) pugging
  2. The process by which something is deafened.
    • 2012, Gary Taylor, Trish Thomas Henley, The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton (page 338)
      Film and dance theory offer a productive vocabulary for considering the effects of these mutings and deafenings.

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