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Meanings of unhearing in English

Totally deaf; unable to hear anything.

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Examples for "profoundly deaf"
Examples for "profoundly deaf"
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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
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 unhearing in English
1
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
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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
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To me the whole world was unhearing as the tempest, and as cold as the torpedo.
Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
7
He remained with his head bowed, unhearing.
Harrigan
8
To me the whole world has been as unhearing as the tempest, and as cold as the iceberg.
Fifteen Years in Hell: An Autobiography
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The others smoked as if unhearing.
The Wrong Twin
10
As if unhearing, Sophie went on,-
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 / A Magazi...
11
Praise or blame, blessing or banning are equally powerless to reach the unhearing ear or to agitate the unbeating heart.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
12
His eyes were staring, his ears unhearing, as he thought of the proof which Yellow Bird had given to him.
The Country Beyond: A Romance of the Wilderness
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Nancy had noticed disapprovingly that Bert was flushed and excited, her asides to him seemed to fall upon unhearing ears.
Undertow
14
Many of the wall-flowers and elderly guests poured their chatter into his unhearing ear, and thought him a most sympathetic listener.
Out of the Primitive
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He complained to the unhearing Spike all the way back to a dressing station, though twice refusing help to carry his load.
The Wrong Twin
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Darius lay on his back, with eyes half-open, motionless, unseeing, unhearing, and he breathed faintly, with the soft regularity of an infant.
Clayhanger
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