英语词汇stave的意思、翻译、用法及例句-英语用法大全

词组	stave
释义	stave The verb meaning "to break or crush inward" has as its past tense and past participle either staved or stove. It usually takes the adverb in: • ... that had stove in the planks of the wheelhouse — Alistair MacLean, Saturday Evening Post, 23 Sept. 1956 • ... a massive gold-processing plant ... , its peaked front all staved in —James Traub, Smithsonian, November 1984 The earliest evidence for stove shows it appearing in nautical contexts ("a stove boat"), but our evidence shows that it now occurs commonly in general contexts as well: • ... he clambered over the stockade wall and stove in the jail door —Howard Troyer, Antioch Rev., Summer 1948 • Theaters were stampeded, limousines were ripped and rent and stove in —Michael Thomas, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 1972 On the basis of our evidence, it appears that stave off, meaning "to ward or fend off," regularly becomes staved off in the past tense: • ... noncommissioned officer who staved off a German attack near the Siegfried Line —Current Biography, October 1966 • ... it staved off its possible demise by signing a new labor contract— Wall Street Jour., 18 Dec. 1981
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