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stove in

stove in is the simple past 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 stove in

What is stove in the simple past of?
Stove in is the simple past of stave in.

Words near stove in in the dictionary

  1. stovaine
  2. Stovall
  3. Stovalls
  4. stove
  5. stove enamel
  6. stove in
  7. stove off
  8. stove polish
  9. stove polishes
  10. stove up
  11. stove-pipe-hatted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stove 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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