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)
- To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
- This loom weaves yarn into cloth.
- To spin a cocoon or a web.
- Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
- 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...
- 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)
- To move by turning and twisting.
- The drunk weaved into another bar.
- 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.
Adjective
wove (not comparable)
Phrases with wove
Words that rhyme with wove
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- shrove
- strove
- throve
- trove
- Arnold's Cove
- arrove
- belove
- Bird Cove
- Bishop's Cove
- Brent's Cove
- Bryant's Cove
- byhove
- Chance Cove
- Coachman's Cove
- Cox's Cove
- flower of Jove
- Flower's Cove
- Frenchman's Cove
- gove
- Jemmy's Cove
- King's Cove
- Lewin's Cove
- Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove
- Lord's Cove
- Miles Cove
- Norman's Cove-Long Cove
- Parker's Cove
- Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove
- Pool's Cove
- Port au Port West-Aguathuna-Felix Cove
- Pouch Cove
- Sally's Cove
- Salmon Cove
- Sandy Cove
- shove
- slove
- Small Point-Adam's Cove-Blackhead-Broad Cove
- St. Jacques-Coomb's Cove
- Tilt Cove
- Upper Island Cove
- Warren Grove
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
Source and license
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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