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shoven

shoven is the past participle of shove.

Meaning of shove

Verb

shove (third-person singular simple present shoves, present participle shoving, simple past shoved, past participle shoved or (obsolete) shoven)

  1. (transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.
    • So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
    • He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary
  3. (by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.
  4. (slang) To pass (counterfeit money).
  5. To put hurriedly

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What is shoven the past participle of?
Shoven is the past participle of shove.

Words near shoven in the dictionary

  1. shovels out
  2. shovels up
  3. shovelsful
  4. shovelware
  5. shovelweed
  6. shoven
  7. shover
  8. shovers
  9. shoves
  10. shoves about
  11. shoves around

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