Index of English words, starting with "de"

(1) - 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.
(2) - Deafen (v. t.) To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.

(1) - Deafly (a.) Lonely; solitary.
(2) - Deafly (adv.) Without sense of sounds; obscurely.

(1) - Deafness (n.) Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.
(2) - Deafness (n.) Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.