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deaf and dumb

unable to hear or speak. (Used without any intended malice, but no longer considered polite. Sometimes euphemized as "hearing and speech impaired.") Fred objected to being called deaf and dumb. Aunt Clara—she was deaf and dumb, you know—lived to be over 100.

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Here, woman,' he said, 'here's your deaf and dumb son. The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context Just as, with you, the deaf and dumb, if once allowed to gesticulate and to use the hand-alphabet, will never acquire the more difficult but far more valuable art of lipspeech and lip-reading, so it is with us as regards "Seeing" and "Feeling". Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelligence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem to work so much by reason or by instinct, or simply because he had been tutored to it, or by any intermixture of all these, even or uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb, spontaneous literal process. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context			dead drunk dead duck dead easy dead from the neck up dead giveaway dead in or an animal's tracks dead in the water dead letter dead loss dead meat Dead men tell no tales dead of winter dead on dead on arrival dead on feet dead serious dead set against dead to rights dead to the world dead wood dead wrong deaden with deadly deadly dull deaf deaf and dumb deaf as a post deal deal a death blow deal in deal into deal out deal out of deal with dealing dear dear departed Dear me! death Death is the great leveler death on debate debate on debit debit against debit to debit with debt deceive deceive into deceive with			DEAE-cellulose deaerate deaerate deaerated deaerates deaerating Deaerating Feed Tank Deaerating Feedwater Tank Deaeration Deaeration deaerations Deaerator DEAET deaf deaf deaf deaf deaf deaf Deaf & Hard of Hearing Interpreting Services, Inc. Deaf Abused Women Warriors Web Network Deaf Action Committee for Sign Writing Deaf Addiction Services at Maryland Deaf aid Deaf aid Deaf aid Deaf aids Deaf and Blind Deaf and Deaf-Blind Committee on Human Rights Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program deaf and dumb Deaf and dumb alphabet Deaf and Hard of Hearing Access Program Deaf and Hard of Hearing Advocacy Resource Center Deaf and Hard of Hearing Alliance Deaf and Hard of Hearing Center Deaf and Hard of Hearing Consumer Advocacy Network Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Government Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services Center Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services Division Deaf and Hard of Hearing Unit Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Program Deaf and Hearing Impaired Deaf and Hearing Impaired Access Program Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children Europe Deaf and Hearing Services Deaf Anthropology Page Deaf Aotearoa New Zealand deaf as a post deaf as a post deaf as a post deaf as a post deaf as a post Deaf Association Northern Ireland Deaf Athletics Federation of the United States Deaf Baptist Church of Fremont Deaf Baptist Fellowship of America Deaf Basketball Association

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