Verb (used with object) : The accident deafened him for life. ,The pounding of the machines deafened us. From Dictionary.com.
He snorted deafeningly, like a scornful carthorse. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Noon]
Indeed, the noise was now almost deafeningly loud. From Wordnik.com. [Isle of View]
The train, rounding the curve, whistled deafeningly. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
The room was already very full and deafeningly noisy. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
The thunder crashed, deafeningly loud and very close. From Wordnik.com. [Jurassic Park]
The crowd surged to its feet and cheered deafeningly. From Wordnik.com. [Call Of The Heart]
The echoing of my own cry rang deafeningly in my ears. From Wordnik.com. [Year of the Unicorn]
"You have failed," the voice rasped, deafeningly loud. From Wordnik.com. [EXCERPT: The Blood King by Gail Z. Martin] Reference
Devoid of air the vacuum of space was deafeningly silent. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2010 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
A Mercedes sounded its horn deafeningly, making him jump. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
I revved the engine deafeningly and reversed out into the aisle. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight]
They were deafeningly loud and a dozen levels past mere charisma. From Wordnik.com. [Binky Philips: Pete Townshend Meets My Mom and Dad at the Fillmore East] Reference
He squinted his eyes to the wind that rushed past his ears deafeningly. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
It cried a command, and suddenly the mouth organ silenced, deafeningly. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
Try hearing about them in the dominant western media deafeningly silent. From Wordnik.com. ["Worthy and Unworthy Victims"] Reference
The blood did not hammer deafeningly at her temples in the usual manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Wing]
It's a subject about which mainstream country has been deafeningly silent. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Sweeney: Everyone's a Critic: The Top 10 Albums of 2008] Reference
It is dusty and muddy, calm and chaotic, deafeningly loud and eerily quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: What The Seattle Times Doesn't Want You To Know] Reference
That giant did not speak deafeningly loud, nor was his accent too barbarous. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
The message was deafeningly clear: the KLA was a pawn on the chessboard of war. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Drawing in a deep breath, she let out a yell that echoed deafeningly in the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Wilds]
He could not hear the sounds of Vandy's descent, for the thunder rolled deafeningly. From Wordnik.com. [Night of masks]
There was none, though the whistle echoed deafeningly down stone halls and turnings. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Dancer]
Jassa's pistol banged deafeningly before my face, and I saw the naik stagger and fall. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
Footsteps and voices approached, deafeningly immediate after the dream-whirl of images. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
"Wright!" he bellowed, the echoes resounding deafeningly all up and down the narrow tube. From Wordnik.com. [First Lensman]
His shout rang deafeningly off the stone, sent ugly undertones echoing across the garden. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
One owl, a barn-owl, had screeched deafeningly in his ear, and had struck him with a wing. From Wordnik.com. [The Circus of Adventure]
Auris howled deafeningly, as the blade sliced into his chest, glancing off his breastbone. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons of Chaos]
Our justice department is deafeningly silent on the political persecution of this good man. From Wordnik.com. [Don Siegelman Isn't Giving up and Neither am I] Reference
He heard what sounded like flapping, along with the wind that blew deafeningly against him. From Wordnik.com. [Escape From Roksamur]
Hold on, the logic there was so utterly, deafeningly absurd that I think you should reread it. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Fredericks: Stupidity: Not Just a Christian Commodity] Reference
As we drove away from the border — again, we declared ourselves … deafeningly happy to be here. From Wordnik.com. [FROM PERMANENT RESIDENT...TO CANADIAN CITIZEN?] Reference
I twisted them hard to the left, but instead of roaring deafeningly to life, the engine just clicked. From Wordnik.com. [Eclipse]
Even as he struck the apparition vanished and his blade clashed deafeningly on the adamantine surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquering Sword of Conan]
The clangor of steel rose deafeningly, and sparks flew as Conan's sword crashed on basinet and hauberk. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Dragon]
Even as he struck, the apparition vanished and his blade clashed deafeningly on the adamantine surface. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Wanderer]
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