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incave

incave verb: to cave inward.

Verb

incave (third-person singular simple present incaves, present participle incaving, simple past and past participle incaved)

  1. (intransitive) To cave inward.
    • On May 26, 1906, some very remarkable phenomena were observed at the Atlantic mine, these consisting in deformations of railway tracks and incaving at the surface.1911, William Herbert Hobbs, The late glacial and post glacial uplift of the Michigan basin: Earthquakes in Michigan, page 86

Forms of incave

third-person singular presentincaves
present participleincaving
past participleincaved
pastincaved

Origin of incave

From in- + cave.

Questions about incave

What does incave mean?
Incave means to cave inward.
What part of speech is incave?
Incave is a verb.
What is the past tense of incave?
The past tense of incave is incaved.

Words near incave in the dictionary

  1. incautiously
  2. incautiousness
  3. incavated
  4. incavation
  5. incavations
  6. incave
  7. incaved
  8. incaverned
  9. incaves
  10. incavi
  11. incaving

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