stove
/stoʊv/ verb C2- To heat or dry, as in a stove. · to stove feathers
- To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat. · to stove orange trees
- To jam; to sprain. · to stove a finger
He/she/it stoves · Past stoved · Past participle stoved · -ing form stoving
Verb forms
- Base form
- stove
- He/she/it
- stoves
- Past
- stoved
- Past participle
- stoved
- -ing form
- stoving
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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These odors escaped from two deep dishes which were covered and placed on a stove, and from a copper pan placed in an old iron pot.
Marilla and Matthew looked at each other deprecatingly across the stove.
The room was whitewashed, as is the custom in prisons, but it looked quite brilliant to a prisoner, though a stove, a bed, a chair, and a table formed the whole of its sumptuous furniture.
A bright fire was glowing in the old-fashioned Waterloo stove and blue-white frost crystals were shining on the windowpanes.
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