How to use deave in a sentence
The profusion of nautical terms with which he "deaves" us (as the old Scotch word has it) would rather lead me to think not.
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British Dictionary definitions for deave
deave
/ (diːv) /
verb(tr) Scot
to deafen
to bewilder or weary (a person) with noise
Origin of deave
1Old English dēafian
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