noun Download 🔗Share A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room. Examples : "The old stove in the classroom kept the room warm enough for the students to study comfortably. " architecture utility item building Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker. Examples : "My mother used the stove to cook dinner. " device utensil machine food utility Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A hothouse (heated greenhouse). Examples : "The botanist used the stove to grow exotic orchids during the winter. " agriculture building plant technology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A house or room artificially warmed or heated. Examples : "The old stove in the classroom kept the room warm enough for the students to study comfortably. " utility building Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To heat or dry, as in a stove. Examples : "to stove feathers" utensil technology device Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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verb Download 🔗Share (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Examples : "to stave in a cask" action utility Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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verb Download 🔗Share (usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Examples : "We ate grass in an attempt to stave off our hunger." action way Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (rare or archaic) To burst in pieces by striking against something. Examples : "The vase, dropped by accident, stove the windowpane. " action physics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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verb Download 🔗Share To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask. Examples : "The careless student stove the precious vintage wine, causing the entire family to lose the rare collection. " suffering action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron. Examples : "to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run" nautical technical utility Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading