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stove up

stove up verb: to be debilitating or crippling to; to cause suffering to (a person).

Verb

stove up (third-person singular simple present stoves up, present participle stoving up, simple past and past participle stoved up)

  1. (US, transitive) To be debilitating or crippling to; to cause suffering to (a person).
    • I can't work: the pain in my knee is stoving me up.

Forms of stove up

third-person singular presentstoves up
present participlestoving up
past participlestoved up
paststoved up

Questions about stove up

What does stove up mean?
Stove up means to be debilitating or crippling to; to cause suffering to (a person).
What part of speech is stove up?
Stove up is a verb.
What is the past tense of stove up?
The past tense of stove up is stoved up.

Words near stove up in the dictionary

  1. stove enamel
  2. stove in
  3. stove off
  4. stove polish
  5. stove polishes
  6. stove up
  7. stove-pipe-hatted
  8. stove-top
  9. stove-tops
  10. stovec
  11. stovecs

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