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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If mair they deave us wi' their din, Or Patronage intrusion, We'll light a spunk, and ev'ry skin, We'll rin them aff in fusion Like oil, some day.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
And as for that glorious Katrine, I'll deave her ears with your name!
From Katrine by Elinor Macartney Lane
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
My minnie does constantly deave me, And bids me beware o’ young men; They flatter, she says, to deceive me, But wha can think so o’ Tam Glen?
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
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 Charles Rogers
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
It’s a mercy t’ bothom isn’t deaved out!’
From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
I wouldna be deaved wi' your keckling for a' your eggs.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
"All the folk in Edinburgh will be coming, and the poor woman be deaved with their spiering."
From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
Of similar import to "I wouldna be deaved," &c.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
"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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