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hearing
verbs
have good/bad etc hearing
• Dogs have excellent hearing.
lose your hearing
(= become unable to hear )
• He lost his hearing as a child after suffering scarlet fever.
affect/impair your hearing
(= make your hearing worse )
• Listening to loud music will eventually impair your hearing.
somebody's hearing gets worse
( also somebody's hearing deteriorates )
• The medication seemed to make her hearing get worse.
somebody's hearing goes
(= someone becomes unable to hear )
• His hearing has gone in one ear.
adjectives
good/sharp/acute
• My hearing isn't as good as it used to be. • Owls and other predatory birds have very acute hearing.
bad/poor
• Poor hearing can affect your social relationships.
impaired
(= having problems with hearing )
• There are about 11,000 people in the UK whose sight and hearing are both severely impaired.
normal
• He was born with normal hearing but became deaf at the age of 11.
hearing + NOUN
hearing loss
• Many older people suffer from some degree of hearing loss.
a hearing problem/difficulty/impairment
• a special telephone for people with hearing problems
phrases
be hard of hearing
(= not be able to hear well )
• The subtitling service is intended for people who are hard of hearing.
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noun ability to hear ADJ. acute, excellent, good, normal, sharp | bad, impaired, poor VERB + HEARING have, possess Whales have acute hearing. | lose She lost her hearing when she was a child. | get back, regain Is there any chance that he'll get his hearing back? | affect, impair, make worse HEARING + VERB deteriorate, get worse, go His hearing began to deteriorate. Her hearing was already going. | come back, get better, improve Two months after the accident her hearing came back. HEARING + NOUN impairment, loss, problems | aid to have/wear a hearing aid | person a course in sign language for both deaf and hearing people PHRASES hard of hearing You'll have to speak more loudly. I'm afraid she's rather hard of hearing. trial in a court of law/similar investigation ADJ. final, preliminary | fair | formal, full | open, public | private, secret | oral | appeal, custody, disciplinary, petition, pre-trial | committee, congressional, court, tribunal VERB + HEARING conduct, hold Most councils hold hearings in public. | ask for, call for, demand Protesters are calling for a public hearing. | get, have She said that she had had a very fair hearing from the disciplinary tribunal. | attend | adjourn | tell The hearing was told that the child had been left with a 14-year-old babysitter. HEARING + VERB take place | begin, open PREP. at a/the ~ At a preliminary hearing the judge announced that the trial would begin on March 21. | in a/the ~ She was granted a divorce in a five-minute hearing. | pending a/the ~ Pending the hearing of the case by the court, the business will be allowed to continue trading. | without a ~ A High Court judge dismissed the case without a hearing. chance for an opinion to be considered ADJ. fair, sympathetic VERB + HEARING give sb/sth At least give our ideas a fair hearing before you reject them. | get You haven't got much chance of your plan getting a sympathetic hearing. | deserve Their views deserve a hearing. PREP. ~ for All I'm asking is a fair hearing for my ideas.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary