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)
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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 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
Ewan McBride's lad he is, if ye must deave me with his forebears .
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars
Dinna ye deave her Grace with your speirings, my lammie.
From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
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
It’s a mercy t’ bothom isn’t deaved out!’
From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Sandy cudna sit still at nicht, an' he sang an' smokit till, atween bein' deaved an' scumfished, I was nearhand seek.
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
I guessed there'd be no luck about that engagement, when I was so deaved with 'poor dears,' and 'poor friends.'
From The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by F. Earl Christy
Indeed, we were deaved about the affability of old crabbit Bodle of Bodletonbrae, and his sister, Miss Jenny, when they favoured us with their company at the first inspection ball.
From The Provost by John Galt
Ezra: I cannot catch a note: I’m getting old, and deaved as well as darkened.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
"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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