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wove

/wəʊv/

wove is the simple past of weave.

wove is the past participle of weave.

Meaning of weave

Verb (1)

weave (third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past wove or weaved, past participle woven or weaved or (now colloquial and nonstandard) wove)

  1. (transitive) To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
    • This loom weaves yarn into cloth.
  2. (transitive) To spin a cocoon or a web.
    • Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
  3. (transitive) To unite by close connection or intermixture.
    • This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  4. (transitive) To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
    • to weave the plot of a story

Verb (2)

weave (third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past and past participle weaved)

  1. (intransitive) To move by turning and twisting.
    • The drunk weaved into another bar.
  2. (transitive) To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
    • The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.

See all 9 meanings of weave

Adjective

wove (not comparable)

  1. made on a mould of closely woven wire

Phrases with wove

Words that rhyme with wove

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Questions about wove

What does wove mean?
Wove means made on a mould of closely woven wire.
What is wove the simple past of?
Wove is the simple past of weave.
What part of speech is wove?
Wove is an adjective.
How do you pronounce wove?
Wove is pronounced /wəʊv/ (UK).

Words near wove in the dictionary

  1. woundworts
  2. woundy
  3. wourali
  4. wourari
  5. WOV
  6. wove
  7. woven
  8. wovens
  9. Wovoka
  10. WOVs
  11. wow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wove (page history and authors); weave (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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