deave
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Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English deven, deaven (“to make deaf”), from Old English ādēafian (“to deafen”). See deef.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
deave (third-person singular simple present deaves, present participle deavin, simple past deaved, past participle deaved)
- to deafen
- 1792, Robert Burns, Sic a wife as Willie's Wife:
- A clapper-tongue wad deave a miller
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to annoy, pester with a noise