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stone-deaf
[stohn-def]
stone-deaf
adjective
completely deaf
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Usage
Use of this word to refer to people with serious hearing difficulties is potentially very offensive: preferred form: profoundly deaf
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of stone-deaf1
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Idioms and Phrases
Totally unable to hear, as in Poor Grandpa, in the last year he's become stone deaf. [First half of 1800s]
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They are pictures to the eye of the blind, heavenly music to the stone-deaf.
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"I am stone-deaf," she said, "but have learned to read what people are saying from the movement of their lips."
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"Any time this club calls me I'm stone-deaf."
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He resembled Jemmy Quark in being almost stone-deaf, and had a further bond of union with the gardener of Balladhoo in being musical.
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Of course, Mr. Quirk, the schoolmaster, could read, but, as we have seen, he resembled Hommy-beg in being almost stone-deaf.
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