Deafness

Definition

deaf /def/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ နားပင္းေသာ။ နားထိုင္းေသာ။ နားေလးေသာ။ go deaf ❍ be deaf in one ear ❍ She was born completely deaf. ❍ He's getting deafer in his old age. ၂။ ~ to sth နားမေထာင္ [ေသာ]။ နားမဝင္ [ေသာ]။ be deaf to all advice/requests/entreaties. n the deaf [pl v ] နားမၾကားသူမ်ား။ television subtitles for the deaf. ❏ deaf-aid n ( Brit ) နားၾကပ္။ = HEARING-AID ❏ (as) deaf as a post [ IDM ] ( infml ) လံုးဝ နားမၾကား။ နားပင္းသည္။ ❏ deaf mute n ဆြံ႕အ နားမၾကားသူ။ ❏ deafness n [U] နားေလးျခင္း။ နားထိုင္းျခင္း။ ❏ fall on deaf ears [ IDM ] ဂ႐ုမစိုက္။ နားမေထာင္။ ကြၽဲပါး ေစာင္းတီး။ All her appeals for help fell on deaf ears. ❏ turn a deaf ear (to sb/sth) [ IDM ] ဂ႐ုမစိုက္။ နား မေထာင္။ She turned a deaf ear to our warnings.

Examples

1. [totally/partially deaf] : She’s been totally deaf since birth.
2. [profoundly deaf] : He has specialist training in working with profoundly deaf students.
3. [deaf in] : I’m a little deaf in one ear.