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dave

verbcommon in dialogue

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To assuage; soften; mitigate; relieve; calm; alleviate (pain).

verb

  1. 1

    To assuage; soften; mitigate; relieve; calm; alleviate (pain).

Etymology

From Middle English deven, deaven (“to make deaf”), from Old English dēafian (“to wax or become deaf”) and Old Norse deyfa (“to make deaf, make blunt, numb, soothe, allay”). Cognate with dialectal Norwegian døyva (“to deafen, make dull”).

Forms

past tense
daved
past participle
daved
present participle
daving
third person singular
daves
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).