LekhoriLekhoriLoud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss.
But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
Very loud.
At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.
present participle and gerund of deafen
pugging
The process by which something is deafened.
Film and dance theory offer a productive vocabulary for considering the effects of these mutings and deafenings.
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