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slove

slove is the simple past of slive.

Meaning of slive

Verb (1)

slive (third-person singular simple present slives, present participle sliving, simple past slove or slived, past participle sliven or slived)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To cut; split; separate.
  2. (Scotland, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.

Verb (2)

slive (third-person singular simple present slives, present participle sliving, simple past and past participle slived)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) To sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.

Verb (3)

slive (third-person singular simple present slives, present participle sliving, simple past and past participle slived)

  1. (slang) To live life to the fullest while being successful, glamorous, and confident.

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Words that rhyme with slove

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Questions about slove

What is slove the simple past of?
Slove is the simple past of slive.

Words near slove in the dictionary

  1. Slovakness
  2. Slovako-
  3. Slovakophone
  4. Slovakophones
  5. Slovaks
  6. slove
  7. sloven
  8. Slovene
  9. Sloveneness
  10. Slovenes
  11. Slovenia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slove (page history and authors); slive (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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