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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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
My minnie does constantly deave me, mother, deafen And bids me beware o' young men; They flatter, she says, to deceive me; But wha can think sae o' Tam Glen?
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
Oh, how she would deave me with that old proverb.
From Wild Kitty by L. T. Meade
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
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
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
Ezra: I cannot catch a note: I’m getting old, and deaved as well as darkened.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
The beast is deaved, to be sure," said Turnpenny, "and lacks his little wit.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
"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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