5 Letter Words Ending in VE

grave

Noun : (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.

Noun : (loosely) Any place of interment.

Noun : (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.

naive

Adjective : Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.

Adjective : Not having been exposed to something.

Noun : A naive person; a greenhorn.

heave

Verb : (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).

Verb : (transitive) To throw, cast.

Verb : (intransitive) To rise and fall.

suave

Adjective : Of a person, charming, though often in a manner that is insincere or sophisticated.

Adjective : Displaying smoothness and sophistication.

Adjective : Gracious, kind.

drive

Verb : To operate a vehicle:

Verb : (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

Verb : (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

delve

Verb : (ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out

Verb : (ambitransitive) To dig; to excavate.

Verb : (intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.

grove

Noun : A small forest.

Noun : A small forest with minimal undergrowth.

Noun : An orchard of fruit trees.

mauve

Noun : A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.

Adjective : Having a pale purple colour.

Noun : (historical) A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.

salve

Noun : An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.

Noun : Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

Verb : (transitive) To calm or assuage.

waive

Verb : (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.

Verb : (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.

Verb : (now rare) To put aside, avoid.

crave

Verb : (ambitransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.

Verb : (transitive, archaic or literary) To ask for earnestly; to beg or demand, as from a figure of authority.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To call for; to require as a course of action.

stave

Noun : One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.

Noun : One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel

Noun : (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

brave

Adjective : Strong in the face of fear; courageous.

Adjective : Making a fine show or display.

Verb : (transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.

verve

Noun : Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.

Noun : (obsolete) A particular skill in writing.

knave

Noun : (dated) A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.

Noun : (card games) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or a soldier.

Noun : (archaic) Any male servant; a menial.

curve

Noun : A gentle bend, such as in a road.

Noun : A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.

Noun : A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.

prove

Verb : (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify.

Verb : (transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.

Verb : (intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.

sieve

Noun : A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.

Noun : A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.

Verb : To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

shove

Verb : (transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.

Verb : (intransitive) To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.

Noun : A rough push.

serve

Verb : (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).

Verb : (transitive) To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.

Verb : (transitive) To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.

reave

Verb : (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.

Verb : (archaic) To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.

Verb : (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.

nerve

Noun : Courage; boldness; audacity; gall.

Noun : Patience; stamina; endurance, fortitude.

Noun : (in the plural) Mental agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotions.

weave

Verb : (transitive) To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.

Verb : (transitive) To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.

Verb : (transitive) To unite by close connection or intermixture.

drove

Noun : (figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move.

Noun : A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.

Verb : To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.

lurve

Noun : (informal) Love, fondness.

Verb : (informal) To love; to like a lot.

trove

Noun : A collection of things.

Noun : A treasure trove; a collection of treasure.

alive

Adjective : Having life; living; not dead.

Adjective : In a state of action; in force or operation; existent.

Adjective : Sprightly; lively; brisk.

naïve

Adjective : Alternative spelling of naive. [Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.]

Noun : Alternative spelling of naive. [A naive person; a greenhorn.]

reeve

Noun : (Canada) The president of a township or municipal district council.

Noun : (historical) Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.

Noun : A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.

slave

Noun : A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.

Noun : (figuratively) A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.

Noun : A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.

cleve

Noun : (now chiefly dialectal) A room; chamber.

Noun : (now chiefly dialectal) A cottage.

Noun : (obsolete) A cliff or hillside.

solve

Verb : To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.

Verb : to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime)

Verb : (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.

skive

Verb : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.

Noun : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) An act of avoiding lessons or work.

Noun : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.

above

Verb : Directly overhead; vertically on top of.

Verb : Higher in rank, power, or position.

Verb : In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream.

clove

Noun : (uncountable or countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

Noun : (countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.

Noun : (horticulture, cooking) One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.

calve

Verb : (intransitive) To give birth to a calf.

Verb : (transitive) To give birth to (a calf).

Verb : (intransitive) To assist in a cow’s giving birth to a calf.

quave

Noun : A shaking; trembling.

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To quiver or tremble.

Noun : A surname from Spanish.

loave

Noun : Alternative form of lofe. [(West Midlands and Northern England) An offer; choice; an opportunity; chance.]

Verb : Alternative form of lofe. [(transitive, UK dialectal or obsolete) To praise; commend.]

terve

valve

Noun : A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.

Noun : Such a device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.

Noun : (anatomy) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction.

leave

Verb : (transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.

Verb : To depart; to separate from.

Verb : (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.

shave

Verb : (transitive) To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.

Verb : (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.

Verb : (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.

carve

Verb : To cut meat in order to serve it.

Verb : To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.

Verb : (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

dreve

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To trouble; afflict; make anxious.

olive

Noun : The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).

Noun : A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.

Noun : A dark yellowish-green color, that of an unripe olive.

glove

Noun : (clothing) An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.

Noun : A baseball mitt.

Verb : (baseball, transitive) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.

stove

Noun : A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.

Noun : A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

Noun : A stovetop, with hotplates.

helve

Noun : The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.

Verb : (transitive) To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.

Noun : A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

shive

Noun : A slice, especially of bread.

Noun : A beam or plank of split wood.

Noun : A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.

swive

Verb : (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a woman).

Verb : (archaic, transitive, dialectal) To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.

keeve

Noun : (brewing) A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.

Noun : (bleaching) A bleaching vat; a kier.

Noun : (mining) A large vat used in dressing ores.

slive

Verb : (slang) To live life to the fullest while being successful, glamorous, and confident.

Noun : (dialectal) A slice or sliver; slip, chip.

Verb : (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.

stive

Verb : (UK, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To stew; to be stifled or suffocated.

Verb : (transitive) Sometimes with up: to compress (something); to cram.

Noun : The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.

blive

Verb : (obsolete) quickly; forthwith

Verb : (intransitive) Alternative form of belive ("to remain"). [(intransitive, dialectal, otherwise obsolete) To remain, stay.]

sarve

Verb : Obsolete spelling of serve. [(personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).]

breve

Noun : (orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.

Noun : (music) A double whole note; a note twice as long as a semibreve.

Noun : An equal mix of espresso and half and half cream.

ogive

Noun : (statistics) The curve of a cumulative distribution function.

Noun : (weaponry, ballistics) The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket.

Noun : (architecture) A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault.

trave

Noun : (architecture) A crossbeam.

Noun : (architecture) A section formed by crossbeams.

Noun : A wooden frame to confine unruly horses while they are shod.

clive

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname, popular in Britain in the mid-twentieth century.

Noun : A topographic surname from Old English - someone who lived near a cliff (Old English clif).

Noun : A village in Lacombe County, Alberta, Canada.

steve

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Steven and Stephen; also used as a formal male given name.

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.

Verb : To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold.

glave

Noun : Alternative form of glaive. [(obsolete, historical) A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head.]

nieve

Noun : the fist or han

naeve

Noun : (obsolete) Alternative spelling of naevus (“pigmented spot”). [(anatomy) A pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal area on the skin, whether congenital or acquired.]

preve

Verb : Obsolete form of prove. [(transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify.]

volve

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To turn over in the mind; to ponder.

peeve

Noun : (colloquial) An annoyance or grievance.

Verb : (colloquial) To annoy; vex.

poove

Noun : (slang, derogatory, rare) Synonym of poof (“male homosexual”).

amove

Verb : (obsolete) To remove.

Verb : (obsolete) To set in motion; to stir up, excite.

Verb : (law, archaic or historical) To dismiss from an office or station.

adive

Noun : The golden jackal; a smaller sort of jackal, sometimes domesticated.

swave

agave

Noun : Any plant in the large, variable genus Agave of succulent plants, commonly armed with formidable prickles, flowering at maturity after several years, and generally dying thereafter; large species, such as the maguey or century plant, (Agave americana), produce gigantic inflorescences. Several are of economic importance as sources of fibre such as sisal, and alcoholic beverages such as tequila.

halve

Verb : (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.

Verb : (transitive) To divide into two halves.

Verb : (transitive) To make up half of.

chive

Noun : A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.

Noun : (in the plural or attributive) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.

Noun : (Trinidad and Tobago, dialect) The spring onion; the green onion; the scallion.

drave

Noun : Alternative spelling of Drava. [A tributary of the Danube, in southern Central Europe.]

larve

Noun : Dated form of larva. [An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.]

aleve

Noun : a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks aleve and anaprox and aflaxen

corve

Noun : Alternative form of corf. [(mining) A large basket, especially as used for coal.]

emove

Verb : (archaic, poetic, transitive) To stir or arouse emotion in (someone); to cause to feel emotion.

kerve

Verb : Obsolete form of carve. [(archaic) To cut.]

u wave

Noun : a wave on an electrocardiogram.

eleve

Noun : (obsolete) A pupil or student.

farve

Noun : A surname from French.

herve

Noun : A Belgian cheese similar to Limburger.

scove

Noun : (UK, dialect, Cornwall, mining) Rich, pure tin ore.

Verb : (transitive) To cover with clay so as to prevent the escape of heat in burning.

maeve

Noun : A female given name from Irish of mostly Irish usage.

beave

Noun : (chiefly Canada, US, slang) Alternative form of beav. [(chiefly Canada, US, slang) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.]

a wave

Noun : (medicine, cardiology) A wave on an electrocardiogram representing the upward deflection in the right atrial pressure occurring during right atrial contraction.

eaeve

chave

cmave

ctave

cwave

mikve

Noun : Alternative spelling of mikveh. [(Judaism) A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed.]

neuve

sheve

roave

Verb : Archaic spelling of rove. [(obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).]

soave

Noun : A dry white wine made in that region from grape varieties that include the Garganega.

Noun : A comune of Veneto, Italy.

Noun : A surname from Italian.

varve

Noun : (geology) An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock.

p wave

Noun : (medicine, cardiology) A wave on an electrocardiogram that represents the electrical changes generated by the depolarization of the atria.

Noun : Alternative form of P-wave. [(geology, seismology) A longitudinal compressional wave produced by an earthquake.]

s wave

Noun : Alternative form of S-wave. [(geology, seismology) A transverse, shear wave, such as that produced by an earthquake. Movement is transverse to the direction of propagation and is a body wave.]

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