schoven

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -oːvən

Noun

schoven

  1. plural of schoof

Verb

schoven

  1. inflection of schuiven:
    1. plural past indicative
    2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English sċūfan, sċēofan (the latter is the ancestor of the variant scheven) from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, *skūbaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃuvən/, /ˈʃuːvən/, /ˈʃeːvən/

Verb

schoven

  1. To shove; to move (often forcibly) by direct physical force:
    1. To shove to the ground; to knock down or over.
    2. To stab or impale; to move a weapon into something.
    3. To shove and throw into something.
  2. To force from something; to remove forcibly or unwillingly:
  3. To move weather or atmospheric conditions.
  4. To enter or go somewhere (often when facing resistance)
  5. (rare) To decline or refuse to accept (or continue accepting).
  6. (rare) To resist shoving or pushing.
  7. (rare) To promote or improve one's standings.
  8. (rare) To crawl or mill about as a crowd.
  9. (rare) To secure or reinforce.

Usage notes

This verb tends to become weak in later Middle English.

Conjugation

Descendants

  • English: shove
  • Scots: shuve
  • Yola: keowe, kewe, khow

References

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