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deave
[ deev ]
verb (used with object)
- to make deaf; deafen.
deave
/ »å¾±Ë±¹ /
verb
- to deafen
- to bewilder or weary (a person) with noise
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of deave1
Example Sentences
Gang to your ain freends and deave them!â€
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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