Fromdeaf +-en(verbal suffix), compareMiddle Englishdeven,deaven(“to make deaf”),Old Englishādēafian(“to deafen”),Dutchverdoven(“to stupefy, deafen”),Germanbetäuben(“to stun, stupefy, deafen”).
deafen (third-person singular simple presentdeafens,present participledeafening,simple past and past participledeafened)
- (transitive) To makedeaf, eithertemporarily orpermanently.
- (transitive) To makesoundproof.
todeafen a wall or a floor
- (transitive, rare, dialectal, sometimes figurative) To stun, as with noise.
to make deaf
- Arabic:أَصَمَّ(ʔaṣamma)
- Armenian:խլացնել (hy)(xlacʻnel)
- Aromanian:asurdzãscu
- Belarusian:аглу́шваць impf(ahlúšvacʹ),глушы́ць (be) impf(hlušýcʹ),аглушы́ць pf(ahlušýcʹ)
- Breton:bouzarañ (br)
- Bulgarian:оглуша́вам (bg) impf(oglušávam),оглуша́ (bg) pf(oglušá)
- Catalan:ensordir (ca)
- Dutch:verdoven (nl),doofmaken
- Finnish:kuurouttaa
- French:assourdir (fr),rendresourd
- Galician:enxordar,axordar
- German:betäuben (de)
- Greek:κουφαίνω (el)(koufaíno)
- Hungarian:megsüketít (hu)
- Indonesian:menulikan (id)
- Irish:bodhraigh
- Japanese:聾する(ろうする, rōsuru)
- Korean:귀를먹먹하게하다(gwi-reul meongmeokhage hada)
- Macedonian:оглуви(ogluvi)
- Polish:ogłuszać (pl) impf,ogłuszyć (pl) pf
- Portuguese:ensurdecer (pt)
- Romanian:asurzi (ro)
- Russian:оглуша́ть (ru) impf(oglušátʹ),глуши́ть (ru) impf(glušítʹ),оглуши́ть (ru) pf(oglušítʹ)
- Spanish:ensordecer (es)
- Ukrainian:оглуша́ти impf(ohlušáty),глуши́ти impf(hlušýty),оглу́шувати impf(ohlúšuvaty),оглуши́ти pf(ohlušýty)
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