deave

American  

[deev] / div /

verb (used with object)

Chiefly Scot.

deaved, deaving

1. to make deaf; deafen.

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deave British  

/ diːv /

verb

1. to deafen

2. to bewilder or weary (a person) with noise

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Etymology

Origin of deave

before 1050; Middle English deven, Old English -dēafian (in ādēafian to grow deaf; see a- ³)

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Example Sentences

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deave deaved deaving

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

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

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

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

Oh, how she would deave me with that old proverb.

From Wild Kitty by L. T. Meade

Of similar import to "I wouldna be deaved," &c.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

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

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

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

Ezra: I cannot catch a note: I’m getting old, and deaved as well as darkened.

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Overhead a shutter was slammed back, and an angry voice bade him stop "deaving folk."

From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson

"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

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