Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with deaf in American Collocation
deaf
adjective
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Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
US
/def/
very or completely deaf
completely
profoundly
severely
totally
very
He has been profoundly deaf since birth.
deaf to some extent
partially
slightly
She is now partially deaf and blind in one eye.
be or become deaf
be born
become
go
A child born deaf has immense difficulty in learning speech because the sounds are not there to be heard and repeated.
make someone deaf
leave someone
He was very sick when he was two and it left him deaf.