Verb (used with object) : The accident deafened him for life. ,The pounding of the machines deafened us.    From Dictionary.com. 

The roar of the maddened torrent behind deafened us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference

The phone clicked and a ring tone deafened the office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcana Magi - c.3: Five Months Later...] Reference

We reached the camp, deafened by Pierre's bellow of greeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montlivet] Reference

But the entreaties fall on ears deafened by meth's siren call.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's Most Dangerous Drug] Reference

The locomotive siren emitted a blast that almost deafened Ned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference

The snow cut her face and the thunder of the waves deafened her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet of the Dunes] Reference

De cannons deafened me and I has been hard of hearing ever since.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2] Reference

Maybe we are too deafened by the inane screaming from the right to hear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters: 'Why Joe Is No Joke'] Reference

She felt her helplessness multiplied, intolerable, thus blinded and deafened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

The lights reflected off her face as the sound of the water deafened the outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcana Magi - c.23: Peaceful Time, Obsessive Motives] Reference

So, too, the ear long shut up in profound silence is deafened by an ordinary sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The shepherds, deafened by the noise, look none the less about the house, but find nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

Has some sinister creative writing course twisted her obvious ability and deafened her ears?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer] Reference

If we go into a school exhibition, our ears are deafened by declamation addressed to ambition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Our ears were deafened and confused, and we recoiled in astonishment, not to say, half in terror.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference

Car alarms deafened the area as the duo looked out at Grove Street and saw police cars flying in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep.13: March of the Steel Giant] Reference

The roaring and thundering deafened him, and he wondered if he should ever stop tumbling over in the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference

He had lived there all his life, and scarcely noticed the noise which would almost have deafened a stranger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

With superior and rapid firepower, the blinded, deafened enemy would be destroyed and defeated as we saw fit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance] Reference

King of France, deafened by the clamour of cackling advice from his aristocracy, either could not or would not hear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit of Lafayette] Reference

Ross, deafened by the din, twisted first one lever and then the other until he had brought the sound to a less piercing howl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traders] Reference

Then someone yelled "Are we down-hearted?" and the Cubs yelled "No!" so loudly that Akela thought she would be deafened for life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference

"Probably my heart was in my mouth, and beating so loud that it deafened me; for, of course, I knew I carried my life in my hand.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Queensland Cousins] Reference

But the ears of men are deafened by being filled with this melody; nor is there in you mortals a duller sense than that of hearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream] Reference

For the doubtful blessing of being wife to an unscrupulous millionaire she had deafened her ears to the call of every decent instinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

I heard the crackle of the lightning as it slid from the sky, and the thunder clap followed so swiftly that for a moment I felt deafened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

It even deafened him for a moment to the sneering comment of Mr. Strangways, which fell on Janetta's ears just as she was leaving the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference