deave
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to deafen
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to bewilder or weary (a person) with noise
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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Dinna ye deave her Grace with your speirings, my lammie.
From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
The noise the maitter o' twenty chields like Sandy cud mak' wi' their buit soles wud fair deave a hale neeperhude.
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
Gang to your ain freends and deave them!”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
It’s a mercy t’ bothom isn’t deaved out!’
From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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 Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
I wouldna be deaved wi' your keckling for a' your eggs.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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 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
"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
Overhead a shutter was slammed back, and an angry voice bade him stop "deaving folk."
From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
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