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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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 Stevenson, Robert Louis
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
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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Ewan McBride's lad he is, if ye must deave me with his forebears .
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by Sillars, John
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
Of similar import to "I wouldna be deaved," &c.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
It’s a mercy t’ bothom isn’t deaved out!’
From Wuthering Heights by Brontë, Emily
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 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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
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