undeaf

English

undeaf (third-person singular simple present undeafs, present participle undeafing, simple past and past participle undeafed)

(transitive, nonce word) To free from deafness.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
  My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear.