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Meanings of very deaf in English

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Usage of very deaf in English
1
She was very deaf, and Boyce had difficulty in making himself understood.
The Shape of Fear
2
She was very deaf and got me away up to the front.
The Personal Touch
3
Only a very deaf person could have missed hearing that mournful howl.
Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp; Or, The Mystery of Ida Bellethorn...
4
She's very old and very deaf; and now she's had a stroke.
The Village by the River
5
Defending solicitor Mr Donal Farrelly told the judge the defendant was very deaf.
The Irish Times
6
She had always been very deaf, and the daughter was out.
An Autobiography
7
She was very deaf and asked me to repeat what I had said.
Nobody's Boy / Sans Famille
8
Being old and very deaf, she did not hear them enter.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
9
Antunano is unfortunately very deaf, and obliged to use an ear-trumpet.
Life in Mexico
10
She is very deaf, and rather dull and stupid, you know.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
11
I have an opaque cold in my head, cough tempestuously and am very deaf.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
12
Fortunately her grandmother, being very deaf, had passed the door and heard no sound.
Miss Prudence: A Story of Two Girls' Lives.
13
She is an admirable old soul, but very deaf, very slow, and incredibly boring.
The Heart of Una Sackville
14
No, Sir, he's very deaf, that's why he's a storeman.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917
15
He was obviously very deaf; she had to shout.
The Captives
16
But one of them was very deaf, and the other seemed to be a foreigner.
The Peterkin papers
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