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Meanings of profoundly deaf in English

Totally deaf; unable to hear anything.

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Examples for "unhearing"
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Under his passionate words Arithelli sat like a being entranced, unseeing, unhearing.
The Hippodrome
2
Weak, soft, slow and stupid, unseeing, unhearing and unaware, helpless, hopeless, and harried.
Dexter in the Dark
3
The old man mumbled a reply; David leaned forward, unhearing.
The marks of cain
4
Even to this Prescott listened only with unhearing ears--atfirst.
Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point / Or, Finding the Glor...
5
The two younger daughters kneeled unhearing, stiffened and impervious.
The Prussian Officer
1
It won't wash. His honor'll be stone-deaf when ye tell him that.
The Man on the Box
2
An old aunt left her the money because she was stone-deaf.
The Autobiography of a Quack, and The Case of George Dedlow
3
Madness, stone-blind, stone-deaf-thatuttered no cry, and poured out no tears.
Agatha's Husband: A Novel
4
Suppose you were stone-deaf, there would be no such thing as sound to you.
The Fairy-Land of Science
5
She would, every few minutes, sink into a reverie, and appear to be stone-deaf.
Aylwin
1
Still she rocked back and forth, apparently as deaf as a post.
Holiday Stories for Young People
2
She's as true as steel and as deaf as a post.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
3
The Marshal is as deaf as a post from the roar of cannon.
Poor Relations
4
The cook was deaf as a post and would never hear.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
5
He was deaf as a post and couldn't tell how loud they were.
Crooked letter, crooked letter
Usage of profoundly deaf in English
1
I have a very good friend who has been profoundly deaf since birth.
Wired
2
A control group of eight gerbils that received no treatment remained profoundly deaf.
The Guardian
3
Hopefully, it will be one best appreciated by the profoundly deaf.
The Guardian
4
I have a friend in town, tech writer, and profoundly deaf.
Wired
5
He is profoundly deaf and wears hearing aids in each ear.
Reuters
6
Ben Fletcher is profoundly deaf and registered blind as a result of Usher syndrome.
BBC
7
Fifteen pre-lingual profoundly deaf subjects were compared with a group of 16 hearing subjects.
Pubmed
8
A profoundly deaf beauty queen from Leicester is aiming to take on the world.
BBC
9
My son, who is 20 months-old was diagnosed as being profoundly deaf at birth.
The Irish Times
10
Meekings is profoundly deaf and would struggle to make out the conversations around her.
BBC
11
The story of Jack Griffiths, who is profoundly deaf, and his struggle to find work.
BBC
12
Mary Regan became profoundly deaf at the age of five, when she was struck by meningitis.
The Irish Times
13
Nearly half of those who responded were sign language users, and 70% profoundly deaf.
The Guardian
14
My father was profoundly deaf and I took him to see Laurence in Othello one afternoon.
The Guardian
15
Highly skilled and motivated, he's also profoundly deaf.
BBC
16
By her late 30s she was profoundly deaf.
Radio NZ
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Profoundly deaf across language varieties
Ireland
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United Kingdom
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