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{
"term": "deaf",
"partOfSpeech": "adjectivenoun",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "unable to hear anything or unable to hear very well",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to **become/go deaf**"
},
{
"text": "She was born deaf."
},
{
"text": "partially deaf"
},
{
"text": "Many of these children are profoundly deaf."
},
{
"text": "She remained deaf until she died."
},
{
"text": "She spoke loudly because her mother was a little deaf."
},
{
"text": "Standing next to the machine all day left her deaf in one ear."
}
],
"topics": ["Disability"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "be born", "become"],
"adverb": ["completely", "profoundly", "stone"],
"preposition": ["to"],
"phrases": ["deaf in one ear"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "people who cannot hear",
"labels": "(old-fashioned)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "television subtitles for the deaf"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "not willing to listen or pay attention to something",
"sensetop": "deaf to something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He was deaf to my requests for help."
},
{
"text": "The committee remained deaf to our suggestions."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "be born", "become"],
"adverb": ["completely", "profoundly", "stone"],
"preposition": ["to"],
"phrases": ["deaf in one ear"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "very deaf",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be ignored or not noticed by other people",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her advice fell on deaf ears."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to ignore or refuse to listen to somebody/something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He turned a deaf ear to the rumours."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/def/",
"audio": "de/deaf/deaf__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/def/",
"audio": "de/deaf/deaf__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English dēaf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch doof and German taub, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek tuphlos ‘blind’."
}