deafened

1. 1.

   caused to hear poorly or not at all

   Similardeaf

Questions about deafened

What does deafened mean?

deafened means "caused to hear poorly or not at all".

How many syllables are in deafened?

deafened has 3 syllables and divides as dea-fe-ned under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is deafened a common word?

deafened is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.