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deave
[ deev ]
verb (used with object)
- to make deaf; deafen.
deave
/ 徱ː /
verb
- to deafen
- to bewilder or weary (a person) with noise
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of deave1
Example Sentences
Gang to your ain freends and deave them!”
She was nae great speaker; folk usually let her gang her ain gate, an’ she let them gang theirs, wi’ neither Fair-guid-een nor Fair-guid-day: but when she buckled to, she had a tongue to deave the miller.
She was nae great speaker; folk usually let her gang her ain gate, an' she let them gang theirs, wi' neither Fair-gui-deen nor Fair-guid-day; but when she buckled to, she had a tongue to deave the miller.
Ewan McBride's lad he is, if ye must deave me with his forebears .
Side by side with the 'On the brink of the night and the morning My coursers are wont to respire, But the Earth has just whispered a warning That their flight must be swifter than fire . . .' of Prometheus Unbound, how salutary, how very salutary, to place this from Tam Glen— '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?'
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