deave

[ deev ]

verb (used with object),deaved, deav·ing.Chiefly Scot.
  1. to make deaf; deafen.

Origin of deave

1
before 1050; Middle English deven,Old English -dēafian (in ādēafian to grow deaf; see a-3)

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How to use deave in a sentence

  • 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.'

    North and South | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • 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.

    Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor Atkinson
  • The billies wha the nicht beforeWere fou at my expense, They deaved the meenister abootMy verra bad offence.

  • 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.

    David Balfour, Second Part | Robert Louis Stevenson
  • I guessed there'd be no luck about that engagement, when I was so deaved with 'poor dears,' and 'poor friends.'

    The Honorable Miss | L. T. Meade

British Dictionary definitions for deave

deave

/ (diːv) /


verb(tr) Scot
  1. to deafen

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

Origin of deave

1
Old English dēafian

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