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- adjective
comparative form ofdeaf : moredeaf
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Examples
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The more you whine and harp about it, the deafer the becomes.
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Why did we become blinder and deafer and stupider since that time?
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And for every pained howl of your heart, Robert Pattinson goes a little bit deafer.
Robert Pattinson Wants You All To Know That He Doesn’t Stink 2010
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A pile of empty casings on the ground, by itself, means only that you are deafer and more broke than you were when you started.
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But along about the twentieth cymbal crash, it don't get louder, you just get deafer, and you hardly hear any of them at all.
He Don't Know Him 2010
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Shrill or sudden noises are getting painfully sharper -- but that's all right, because you're getting deafer.
Martin Amis's 'The Pregnant Widow' Is A 'Strange, Sparkling Novel' (New York Review) 2010
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Since I'm becoming deafer as time goes by, the noise is bothering me less.
Cruelty to Animals 2006
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He was deafer than I am, and whenever we ended up on a trip together, he always was glad to see me.
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So little did any of this shake my opponent that I came away from our debate with the grim realization that the president's continued insistence on the dangers posed by an Iranian bomb would more and more fall on deaf ears -- ears that would soon be made even deafer by the new NIE's assurance that Iran was no longer hell-bent on acquiring nuclear weapons after all.
Stopping Iran 2008
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As for the voice – well, the deafer she gets, the louder.
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