Deafen

Definitions: Deafen

Deafen

Verb

1. Be unbearably loud; "a deafening noise".

2. Make or render deaf.

3. Make soundproof; "deafen a room".

Date "deafen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Note: Deafen \Deaf"en\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Deafened; present participle verb or noun Deafening.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Deafen

Synonym: deaf (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Deafen

English words defined with "deafen": Deave, Dorr. (references)

Etymologies containing "deafen": Deave. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Deafen" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (deafen).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	In case we have to deafen them to death? (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Deafen" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Deafen" is used about 12 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	75%	9	117,287
Lexical Verb (base form)	25%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

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Language		Translations for "deafen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shurdhoj (devocalize, din). (various references)

Arabic		‏وصم (stigmatize, stun), ‏طرش (deafness), ‏أبكم (deaf mute, dumb, mute, speechless, voiceless). (various references)

Bulgarian		оглушавам (become deaf, grow deaf), заглушавам (black out, deaden, drown, dull, intercept, jam, jam out, kill, obstruct, overgrow, silence), проглушавам (din), правя звуконепроницаем (deaden). (various references)

Chinese		使耳聾 . (various references)

Czech		ohlušit (strike deaf). (various references)

Farsi		کرکردن , کرشدن . (various references)

French		rendre sourd, casser les oreilles, assourdir (devocalize), étouffer (deaden). (various references)

German		taub machen (numb). (various references)

Greek		κουφαίνω. (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"חריש אז� ים. (various references)

Hungarian		süketít (to deafen), elfojt (Burke, close down, damp, extinguish, quench, repress, smother, suppress, to bottle, to bottle up, to check, to curb, to damp, to deaden, to drown out, to inhibit, to mask, to put down, to quash, to quell, to repress, to silence, to smother, to stifle, to strangle, to strangulate, to subdue, to suppress, to tame, to throttle down, to wad). (various references)

Indonesian		menulikan, membuat tuli. (various references)

Italian		stordire (daze, dull one's senses, dumbfound, stun, stupefy), rintronare (stun), assordare (daze, din, numb, stun). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		聾する (to deafen). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ろうする (to deafen, to play a trick, to talk, to use). (various references)

Manx		bouyraghey. (various references)

Maya		koohkins (to deafen). (various references)

Pig Latin		eafenday.(various references)

Portuguese		ensurdecer (deaf, unvoice), aturdir (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, confuse, daze, din, obfuscate, stun), atordoar (amaze, appal, daze, din, dismay, dizzy, hag, lay siege to, mope, puzzle, stagger, stun, stupefy). (various references)

Romanian		deafen, asurzi (din), înãbuşi (blanket, bring under, choke, control, deaden, drown, hush, keep down, kill, mortify, muffle, quash, quell, quench, restrain, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle). (various references)

Russian		оглушать (devocalize, stun, unvoice). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaglušiti. (various references)

Spanish		ensordecer. (various references)

Swedish		göra döv. (various references)

Turkish		ses geçirmez yapmak (soundproof), sağırlaştırmak, sağır etmek. (various references)

Ukranian		глушити (silence), оглушати (deaf), заглушати (damp, deaf, drown, muffle, narcotize, stifle). (various references)

Welsh		byddaru (stun). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	obtusi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "deafen": deafened, deafening, deafeningly, deafens. (additional references)
	Words ending with "deafen": bedeafen. (additional references)
	Words containing "deafen": bedeafened, bedeafening, bedeafens. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Deafen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dafang, dafen, Daffin, dealen, Deanein, deaven, defamen, defen, defeo, defez, Dehaen, Dehaven, D'eiffel, deinen, delfen, delfin, diafen, Diagen, diffen, diffent, Draffan, leafen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "deafen" (pronounced de"fun)
3	-f u n	acetaminophen, dolphin, endorphin, Griffon, hyphen, ibuprofen, morphin, muffin, often, orphan, paraffin, siphon, soften, stiffen, syphon, tamoxifen, toughen.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-n"
	-2 letters: deaf, dean, dene, fade, fane, feed, fend, need.
	-3 letters: and, ane, dee, den, end, fad, fan, fed, fee, fen, nae, nee.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, an, de, ed, ef, en, fa, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-n"
	+1 letter: deafens, endleaf, enfaced.
	+2 letters: bedeafen, deafened, deafness, defanged, defiance, enfilade, enflamed, enframed, fastened, fattened, fedayeen, fenagled, freedman, freehand, unfeared.
	+3 letters: bedeafens, deafening, defeating, defendant, defiances, definable, defleaing, enfiladed, enfilades, engrafted, fecundate, flanneled, flattened, forenamed, referenda, refrained.
	+4 letters: bedeafened, beforehand, confederal, daftnesses, deafnesses, defacement, defeasance, defecating, defecation, defenceman, defendable, defendants, defenseman, definienda, denazified, denazifies, fecundated, fecundates, federating, federation, festinated, firefanged, flannelled, forehanded, forewarned, fragmented, freedwoman, freehanded, freelanced, interfaced, manifested, newfangled, nonfederal, prefranked, refastened, refinanced, refundable, reinflated, unaffected, undefeated, unfastened, unfathered.
	+5 letters: affectioned, bedeafening, caffeinated, codefendant, confederacy, confederate, deafeningly, defacements, defeasances, defecations, deferential, defibrinate, definientia, differentia, dwarfnesses, federations, fenestrated, frankpledge, fraternized, fraudulence, freeloading, indefinable, manifestoed, prefinanced, redefeating, refashioned, transfected, transferred, undefinable.
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