v. [f. BE- 2 + DEAFEN v.] Intensive of DEAFEN. Found only in pa. pple.

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1631.  Quarles, Samson, in Farr, S. P. (1848), 126. Did wake His father’s sleep-bedeafned eares.

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1808.  Scott, Marm., IV. xvi. Bedeafen’d with the jangling knell.

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