Definition: 1. People who have severe hearing impairments. 2. Make or render deaf. 3. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part. 4. (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed.
Use 'deaf' in a sentence:
1. She said, "No, many people are deaf."
2. People who work and live under noisy conditions usually become deaf.
3. The partly deaf man inclined forward to hear the conversation more clearly.
4. He turned a deaf ear to the rumours.
5. The deaf man could not hear what you said.
6. The words were earnest but they fell on deaf ears.
7. He always turns a deaf ear to other people's criticism.
8. We provide signers for deaf people and readers for the blind.
9. I'm quite deaf — you'll have to speak up.
10. Many other countries have turned a deaf ear to their cries for help.
11. Plenty of people living near airports also become deaf.
12. The deaf and dumb man said all that!
13. The computer has simplified the difficult task of teaching reading to the deaf.
14. It is wrong to turn a deaf ear to others' criticisms.
15. Later he went to a school for blind and deaf children.
16. I didn't expect him to turn a deaf ear to his comrades' criticism.
17. I hope that our appeals will not fall on deaf ears.
18. She is now profoundly deaf.
19. He turned a deaf ear to criticism.
20. Deaf people talk with signs.
21. She learnt to sign to help her deaf child.
22. Many deaf people have feelings of isolation and loneliness.
23. The two deaf actors converse solely in signing.
24. She devoted her whole adult life to the cause of deaf people.
25. The proposal fell upon deaf ears.
26. The suggestion of his fell upon deaf ears.
27. Many regular TV programmes are captioned for the deaf.
28. Suddenly he became deaf.
29. The handicapped also include deaf-mutes and some brain paralysis amentia.
30. Deaf people are sometimes treated as being mentally deficient.
31. He was born deaf.
32. I'm keen on providing signers for deaf people and readers for the blind.
33. He is deaf of [ in] one ear.
34. "We have a passenger on the plane who's blind and deaf," she said.
35. He has turned a resolutely deaf ear to American demands for action.
36. I'm quite deaf – you'll have to speak up.
37. He turned a deaf ear to the instruction given by his teacher.
38. It is the world's only liberal arts university for deaf people.
39. The frog explained to them that he was a little bit deaf.
40. He was a very unusual musician inasmuch as he was totally deaf.
41. Lisa is deaf in one ear and partially blind.
42. He was deaf to my requests for help.
43. She was born deaf.
44. She was born deaf and dumb.
45. The primitive surgery of those days left him virtually deaf in one ear.
46. Recent research on deaf children has produced some interesting findings about their speech.
47. He's deaf and dumb and so rarely communicates with others.
48. Her advice fell on deaf ears.
49. The provincial assembly were deaf to all pleas for financial help.
