"close one's ears" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "closes one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "closing one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "closed one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "closed one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "close one's ears (third-person singular simple present closes one's ears, present participle closing one's ears, simple past and past participle closed one's ears)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1865, Thomas Hare, The Election of Representatives, Parliamentary and Municipal, page 65",
          "text": "to state the case still more strongly, the nation has a right to such practical wisdom as can be elicited only by the free comparison and discussion of opposing and divergent theories and measures; and the legislators who represent a bare majority have no right to close their ears and minds to the most ample and forceful presentation of the views and arguments of the minority.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910 May, Margaret Preston Lynnbrook, “Doctor Bestor's Atonement”, in The New England Magazine, volume 42, number 3, page 312",
          "text": "He closed his ears to applauding voices of the multitude, when those voices were to him the melody of time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Catherine Davies, Jane Whetnall, Hers Ancient and Modern: Women's Writing in Spain and Brazil, page 13",
          "text": "In her writing, Teresa figuratively associates her deafness with her entering the convent: God closed her ears to human voices, cloistering her hearing ('las claustras de mis orejas') and enclosing her in a community of suffering ('el convento de las dolençias').",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Kahlil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious, page 13",
          "text": "Then I heard a beautiful melody from heaven that revived my wounded heart with its purity, but I closed my ears and said, 'Oh, my soul, the cry of the abyss is thy lot, do not be greedy for heavenly songs.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not to listen."
      ],
      "id": "en-close_one's_ears-en-verb-t6pbUFk1",
      "links": [
        [
          "listen",
          "listen"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "word": "taparse las orejas"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "close one's ears"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "closes one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "closing one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "closed one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "closed one's ears",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "close one's ears (third-person singular simple present closes one's ears, present participle closing one's ears, simple past and past participle closed one's ears)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1865, Thomas Hare, The Election of Representatives, Parliamentary and Municipal, page 65",
          "text": "to state the case still more strongly, the nation has a right to such practical wisdom as can be elicited only by the free comparison and discussion of opposing and divergent theories and measures; and the legislators who represent a bare majority have no right to close their ears and minds to the most ample and forceful presentation of the views and arguments of the minority.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910 May, Margaret Preston Lynnbrook, “Doctor Bestor's Atonement”, in The New England Magazine, volume 42, number 3, page 312",
          "text": "He closed his ears to applauding voices of the multitude, when those voices were to him the melody of time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Catherine Davies, Jane Whetnall, Hers Ancient and Modern: Women's Writing in Spain and Brazil, page 13",
          "text": "In her writing, Teresa figuratively associates her deafness with her entering the convent: God closed her ears to human voices, cloistering her hearing ('las claustras de mis orejas') and enclosing her in a community of suffering ('el convento de las dolençias').",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Kahlil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious, page 13",
          "text": "Then I heard a beautiful melody from heaven that revived my wounded heart with its purity, but I closed my ears and said, 'Oh, my soul, the cry of the abyss is thy lot, do not be greedy for heavenly songs.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not to listen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "listen",
          "listen"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "word": "taparse las orejas"
    }
  ],
  "word": "close one's ears"
}