Subject

• noise: Over, and over, and over again, until you're deafened by the noise.

• meningitis: The team will investigate the progress in speech skills of young children who are deafened by meningitis and have had cochlear implants.

Object

• din: Amid a deafening din several busloads of police reinforcements arrived.

• applause: The deafening applause that greeted the band back on stage for the encore was enough to impress the most hardened industry big-wig.

• cheer: Robbie then said his goodbyes and thanked the audience as he took his bows with his band and left the stage to deafening cheers.

• noise: Being bathed in a wash of deafening guitar noise is lovely.

Modifying Another Word

• nearly: The noise of the German guns nearly deafened us.

• quite: The noise from the surface was now quite deafening.

• absolutely: Yet the silence from Bush and Blair - twins of evil - is absolutely deafening.

• not: The plug is pulled and the silence is not deafening, but a weight is taken off all the same.

• truly: Cameron's silence regarding the middle east is truly deafening.

Preposition: by

• noise: Over, and over, and over again, until you're deafened by the noise.

• meningitis: The team will investigate the progress in speech skills of young children who are deafened by meningitis and have had cochlear implants.