Idiom
stone deaf
Meaning
Utterly deaf.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He is stone deaf and cannot hear you.”
“You must speak clearly because my grandfather has become stone deaf over the years.”
“Despite being stone deaf since birth, the musician developed an extraordinary ability to feel the vibrations of the instruments through the floorboards.”
Examples
simple
“He is stone deaf and cannot hear you.”
contextual
“You must speak clearly because my grandfather has become stone deaf over the years.”
complex
“Despite being stone deaf since birth, the musician developed an extraordinary ability to feel the vibrations of the instruments through the floorboards.”
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