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)

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Example Sentences

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deave deaved deaving

Over and above which there was truth in Keziah’s saying, “The young gentlemen argle-bargles fit to deave a body’s head; and dear knows what it’s all about.”

From Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

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 Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson

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 Robert Burns

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 F. Earl Christy

They'll deave yo, down i' th' town, wi their noise.—Yo'd think they were warked to deäth.—Bit, yo can see for yorsen.

From Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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

From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Ezra: I cannot catch a note: I’m getting old, and deaved as well as darkened.

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Indeed, we were deaved about the affability of old crabbit Bodle of Bodletonbrae, and his sister, Miss Jenny, when they favoured us with their company at the first inspection ball. 

From The Provost by John Galt

I wouldna be deaved wi' your keckling for a' your eggs.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

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

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