deave

American  

[deev] / div /

verb (used with object)

Chiefly Scot.

deaved, deaving

1. to make deaf; deafen.

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deave British  

/ diːv /

verb

1. to deafen

2. to bewilder or weary (a person) with noise

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Etymology

Origin of deave

before 1050; Middle English deven, Old English -dēafian (in ādēafian to grow deaf; see a- ³)

Example Sentences

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deave deaved deaving

My minnie does constantly deave me, And bids me beware o’ young men; They flatter, she says, to deceive me, But wha can think so o’ Tam Glen?

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

If mair they deave us wi' their din, Or Patronage intrusion, We'll light a spunk, and ev'ry skin, We'll rin them aff in fusion Like oil, some day.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

He humm'd and haw'd, the lass cried "pheugh," And bade the coof no deave her, Syne crack'd her thumb, and lap and leugh, And dang the silly weaver.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

Noisy enough to deave one, by nature, give a bit Skye a reason and he'll lie a' the day under a whin bush on the brae, as canny as a fox.

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

You mean to be good-natured, neighbors, but really you're enough to deave one.

From The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by Christy, F. Earl

He's deaved wi' my talking; he says it's all nought to do with the things o' to-day, and that's his business.'

From North and South by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

I've been deaved aboot 'im a' the day, but I haena seen the sonsie rascal nor the braw collar the Laird Provost gied 'im.

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

The beast is deaved, to be sure," said Turnpenny, "and lacks his little wit.

From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert

Catrine's a good lass enough, and a good-hearted, and lets herself be deaved all day with a runt of an auld wife like me.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

It’s a mercy t’ bothom isn’t deaved out!’

From Wuthering Heights by Brontë, Emily

Overhead a shutter was slammed back, and an angry voice bade him stop "deaving folk."

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

"I'm thinking, Hamish, if the houris in his paradise kenned the words o' the spring I've been deaving him wi', the Egyptian would be very greatly thought of."

From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by Sillars, John