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 GaskellI'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 AtkinsonThe 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 StevensonI 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
/ (diːv) /
to deafen
to bewilder or weary (a person) with noise
Origin of deave
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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