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Shattering vs Deafening - What's the difference?

shattering | deafening |

As verbs the difference between shattering and deafening

is that shattering is while deafening is .

As nouns the difference between shattering and deafening

is that shattering is the act of something that shatters while deafening is (architecture) pugging.

As an adjective deafening is

loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss.

shattering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that shatters.
  • * 1997 , J. Wright, Realism and Explanatory Priority (page 226)
    • It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings , because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass)

    Anagrams

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    deafening

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss
  • Very loud
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.}}

    Related terms

    * deaf * deafen * deafening silence

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

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  • (architecture) pugging