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bleve

bleve is the alternative form of belive.

Meaning of belive

Verb

belive (third-person singular simple present belives, present participle beliving, simple past belove, past participle beliven)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive, otherwise obsolete) To remain, stay.
    • … God helpe me so, the best is thus to done. “Rise, let us speake of lustie life in Troy That we have lad, and forth the time drive, And eke of time coming us rejoy, That bringen shall our blisse now to blive, …"1843 (original date: 1475), Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt, The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer - Page 321

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Noun capitalized: BLEVE

BLEVE (plural BLEVEs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion.

Forms of bleve

Verb
third-person singular presentbleves
present participlebleving
past participlebleved
pastbleved
Noun
pluralBLEVEs

Questions about bleve

What is bleve the alternative form of?
Bleve is the alternative form of belive.
What part of speech is bleve?
Bleve is a noun.
What is the plural of bleve?
The plural of bleve is BLEVEs.

Words near bleve in the dictionary

  1. bleu d'Auvergne
  2. bleu, blanc et rouge
  3. bleugh
  4. Bleulerian
  5. bleurgh
  6. bleve
  7. bleved
  8. Blevens
  9. Blevenses
  10. BLEVEs
  11. blevey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bleve (page history and authors); BLEVE (page history and authors); belive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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