go deaf

Then a heavy silence set in, as if I'd gone deaf.

Everything fell silent then, as if he had gone deaf.

I don't know what level it's on, and the lift has gone deaf.

Would he go altogether deaf in another ten or twenty years?

It was so profound, the whole land seemed to have gone deaf and dumb at once.

Some of the older men had already gone deaf, and didn't hear when he spoke to them.

America, as a whole, would seem to have gone deaf, dumb and blind.

In utter silence, as if he had suddenly gone completely deaf.

Listen, went out to this shop with my friend and she's gone deaf, seriously she has.

I was having problems with my ears and gone slightly deaf.