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staves in

staves in is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stave in.

Meaning of stave in

Verb

stave in (third-person singular simple present staves in, present participle staving in, simple past staved in or stove in, past participle staved in or stove in or stoven in)

  1. To stave from the outside, to crush inward, to cause to collapse inward.
    • "We'll get an axe and stave in all these barrels and the liquid will all run out", threatened the man.

Questions about staves in

What is staves in the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Staves in is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stave in.

Words near staves in in the dictionary

  1. Stavers
  2. Stavert
  3. Staverton
  4. staverwort
  5. staves
  6. staves in
  7. staves off
  8. stavesacre
  9. stavesacres
  10. Staveses
  11. stavesman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: staves in (page history and authors); stave in (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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