bedeafen, v.
(bɪˈdɛf(ə)n)
[f. be- 2 + deafen v.]
Intensive of deafen. Found only in pa. pple.
| 1631 Quarles Samson in Farr S.P. (1848) 126 Did wake His father's sleep-bedeafned eares. 1808 Scott Marm. iv. xvi, Bedeafen'd with the jangling knell. |