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dēf
adj. (& n.)
79 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Unable to hear; of a person, an ear, hearing: deaf;
blind and def, def and blind, def and doumb, doumb and def
; (b) as noun: deaf person(s, the deaf; (c)
def boren
, born deaf.
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