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stoving

stoving is the present participle and gerund of stove.

Meaning of stove

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To heat or dry, as in a stove.
    • to stove feathers
  2. (transitive) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
    • to stove orange trees
  3. (transitive) To jam; to sprain.
    • to stove a finger

See all 8 meanings of stove

Noun

stoving (countable and uncountable, plural stovings)

  1. The process of heating or drying something in a stove.
    • […] stovings each of one hour at 200°C.1961, Engineering, volume 192, page 19

Forms of stoving

pluralstovings

Questions about stoving

What does stoving mean?
Stoving means the process of heating or drying something in a stove.
What is stoving the present participle and gerund of?
Stoving is the present participle and gerund of stove.
What part of speech is stoving?
Stoving is a noun.
What is the plural of stoving?
The plural of stoving is stovings.

Words near stoving in the dictionary

  1. stovetops
  2. stoveware
  3. stovewood
  4. stovies
  5. Stovin
  6. stoving
  7. stovings
  8. STOVL
  9. stow
  10. stow away
  11. Stow Bedon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stoving (page history and authors); stove (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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