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deave

[ deev ]

verb (used with object)

Chiefly Scot.
deaved, deaving.
  1. to make deaf; deafen.


deave

/ 徱ː /

verb

  1. to deafen
  2. to bewilder or weary (a person) with noise
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of deave1

before 1050; Middle English deven, Old English -ŧھ (in ŧھ to grow deaf; a- 3 )
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of deave1

Old English ŧھ
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Gang to your ain freends and deave them!”

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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.

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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.

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Ewan McBride's lad he is, if ye must deave me with his forebears .

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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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