Deafen
- v. t. To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.
- v. t. To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.