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

Oh, how she would deave me with that old proverb.

From Wild Kitty by L. T. Meade

And as for that glorious Katrine, I'll deave her ears with your name!

From Katrine by Elinor Macartney Lane

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 Charles Rogers

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 Robert Burns

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

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson

"All the folk in Edinburgh will be coming, and the poor woman be deaved with their spiering."

From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson

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

From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Sandy cudna sit still at nicht, an' he sang an' smokit till, atween bein' deaved an' scumfished, I was nearhand seek.

From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond

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 Robert Louis Stevenson

I guessed there'd be no luck about that engagement, when I was so deaved with 'poor dears,' and 'poor friends.'

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

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

From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson

"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 John Sillars