different between dave vs drave

English

Alternative forms

• daive, deave, deve

Etymology

From Middle English deven, deaven (“to make deaf”), from Old English d?afian (“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”).

Verb

dave (third-person singular simple present daves, present participle daving, simple past and past participle daved)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To assuage; soften; mitigate; relieve; calm; alleviate (pain).

Anagrams

• E.D. Va., Veda, deva, vade

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dav?]

Noun

dave m

1. vocative singular of dav

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

dave (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of daviti

English

Verb

drave

1. (archaic) simple past tense of drive
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 12 p. 196[1]:

     His kingly courage quell: but from his short retyre,

     His reinforced troupes (newe forg’d with sprightly fire)

     Before them drave the Dane, and made the Britaine runne

     (Whom he by liberall wage here to his ayde had wonne)

   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 387:

     I do not know its name, but the Sahib sat in the midst of three silver wheels that made no creaking, and drave them with his legs, prancing like a bean-fed horse—thus.

Anagrams

• Adver., Radev, ervad, raved

Scots

Noun

drave (plural draves)

1. a drove

Verb

drave

1. past tense of drive

Anagrams

• raved