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whorven

UK/wɔː.vən/US/woɹ.vən/

whorven is the past participle of wharve.

Meaning of wharve

Verb

wharve (third-person singular simple present wharves, present participle wharving, simple past wharved or whorf, past participle wharved or whorf or whorven)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) To turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).
    • It wharves the wair and stirs the sand.1898, “Junda” Klingrahoolː

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Questions about whorven

What is whorven the past participle of?
Whorven is the past participle of wharve.
How do you pronounce whorven?
Whorven is pronounced /woɹ.vən/ (US).

Words near whorven in the dictionary

  1. whortleberry
  2. whortles
  3. Whorton
  4. Whortons
  5. whorts
  6. whorven
  7. whos
  8. whose
  9. whose foot the shoe is on
  10. whose ox is gored
  11. whoseever

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whorven (page history and authors); wharve (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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