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stoven in

stoven in is the past participle 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 stoven in

What is stoven in the past participle of?
Stoven in is the past participle of stave in.

Words near stoven in in the dictionary

  1. stovelike
  2. stovemaker
  3. stovemakers
  4. stovemaking
  5. stoven
  6. stoven in
  7. stovepipe
  8. stovepipe hat
  9. stovepipe hats
  10. stovepipe tornado
  11. stovepipe tornados

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stoven 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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