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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My minnie does constantly deave me, And bids me beware o' young men; They flatter, she says, to deceive me, But wha can think sae o' Tam Glen!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
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 Salmond, J. B.
Hout tout, mither," cried Cuddie, interfering and dragging her off forcibly, "dinna deave the gentlewoman wi' your testimony! ye hae preached eneugh for sax days.
From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Scott, Walter, Sir
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
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 Neilson, William Allan
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