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耳聋 — meaning in English

ěr lóng

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English meaning

  • hollow noun A small valley or dip between hills, or a sunken area on a surface.
  • obtuse adj Slow to understand or notice things that seem obvious to others.
  • voiceless adj Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.

Senses

耳聋 is used for these senses in English:

  • deaf person (This entry is a translation hub.)
  • hollow (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
  • obtuse Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
  • voiceless (phonetics, of a consonant or vowel) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd, breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥].

hollow — full definition

  1. noun A small valley or dip between hills, or a sunken area on a surface.
  2. noun An empty space or cavity inside something.
  3. adj Having an empty space inside; not solid.
  4. adj Insincere or lacking real meaning or substance.
  5. verb To dig or carve out a hole or cavity in something.

obtuse — full definition

  1. adj Slow to understand or notice things that seem obvious to others.
  2. adj Of an angle: greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees.
  3. adj Blunt or rounded rather than sharp or pointed.

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